'Dawson's Creek' exec reflects on gay plot, Saturday November 07, 2009 USA Options

[sChiZoO14]

Kevin Williamson has explained his decision to make one of the Dawson's Creek characters gay.

Speaking at the Paley Center for Media, the show's executive producer said that he wanted the story of Jack - portrayed by Kerr Smith - to be "very sensitive".

"I wanted the audience to sort of follow the journey so I wanted to kind of bring him in and have the audience grow to love him first and then reveal the truth of who he was and love him even more," he said.

"I just wanted to be very sensitive to the way we chose to tell it. I never had any problem with it and called up Susanne Daniels, who was [WB] president at the time, and she was like, 'Absolutely. Sounds great!'

"Her one request was, 'Make sure when you deal with him coming out that you deal with it from Dawson's perspective and Joey's perspective and all the other kids' perspective and I want to see how they react to it'."

Williamson also revealed that James Van Der Beek almost missed out on the chance to star in the teen drama and only got on board just before production started.

A special 'Complete Series' Dawson's Creek DVD featuring all six seasons will be released next week.

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[Anime_UK]

Woah, this show is still on? It's seriosuly old now! Well a gay plot is good....

[nadine]

no it ended long time already

it just that the special boxset is releasing
hence sudden news of the show once again

[-shey-]

wow blast from the past. i remember spending hours agonising about the whole pacey-joey thing...hmm maybe i should get the box set. does anyone know why its suddenly coming out?