Michelle Williams is reflecting on making her TV debut at age 12 with an look on Baywatch.
When requested on Entertainment Weekly's “The Awardist” podcast whether or not being within the presence of a “Baywatch bikini” was intimidating, Williams, 44, replied, “I imply … I don't … [I] suppose I used to be 12.”
“I didn't know what ideas to suppose. It was all type of expertise and little or no processing,” she mentioned throughout the August interview.
Williams appeared on the season 4 premiere episode, “Race In opposition to Time, Half 1,” in 1993, the place she performed Bridget Bowers, who had a crush on Jeremy Jackson‘s Hobie. Williams later returned 11 episodes later, the place she was listed as “Hobie's Groupie.”
When requested whether or not the 2 characters are the identical particular person, Williams replied, “Whoa … I imply, I don't know who is provided to reply that query. Not me. That is perhaps some stuff for the chat.”
As for what she remembered from the expertise, Williams shared, “I don't bear in mind a lot. I simply bear in mind the bikini hanging in my trailer.”
Williams went on to star as Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek, which premiered in 1998. The present aired for six seasons till coming to a detailed in 2003. Greater than twenty years later, the solid is ready to reunite on September 22 for a stay studying of the pilot in help of James Van Der Beek's most cancers battle. (Van Der Beek, 48, introduced in 2024 that he was recognized with stage III colorectal most cancers.)
“We grew up in Capeside and that's a bond that may final a lifetime,” Williams mentioned on the time, referring to the placement's seashore city. “We needed to assemble round our expensive good friend James and remind him that we're all right here. We all the time have been and we all the time will likely be. And I do know the followers of Dawson's Creek really feel the identical manner.”
Alongside Williams and Van Der Beek, fellow alums Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson will seem with Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe and Busy Philipps. Collection creator Kevin Williamson will even have fun the present.
“I'm so excited to reunite with James, Michelle, Katie, Joshua and our Dawson's Creek household for such a particular night time. Dawson's Creek modified my life,” Williamson, 60, mentioned in an announcement. “What started as a private story a couple of younger man and his buddies navigating their manner by the challenges of life turned a lot greater than I ever dreamed.”
He continued, “[The show] created a permanent fandom and legacy everywhere in the world. I'm so honored to be part of it and to help our stunning good friend James as we proceed to navigate our manner by life and its many challenges.”
