This article is published in number 37 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until September 14, 2021
If you were a teenager in 2001, the year in which Tiziano Ferro climbed the charts asking for “forgiveness” and the cell phone was used above all to beat Snake’s record, you know that in the recess hour the thorniest choice was not among the rubbery ones. with cola and fruit jellies, but between Dawson and Pacey. Dawson Leery and Pacey Witter are the protagonists of Dawson’s Creek, the series that represented a stronger social aggregator than hearts on Instagram.
If you didn’t know how many dollars Henry had shelled out to kiss Jen and which poster was towering over Dawson’s bed, you were cut off from the conversations and, perhaps, from the group as well. Eighteen years later, Joshua Jackson, now 43, has the same rogue look Pacey had, with the addition of a few white wisps on his temples and beard. Despite having played myriad roles, including that of Cole Lockhart in The Affair, the Canadian actor knows that in interviews the tax is always a question about Pacey. But unlike many colleagues who go out of their way to shake off the characters that made them famous, it doesn’t make a turn.
“I love Pacey. Thinking about him brings me back to the most magical period of my life “, he tells on Zoom to talk about the umpteenth transformation that saw him as the protagonist: that of doctor Christopher Duntsch in the series Dr. Death, available on StarzPlay from 12 September. Inspired by an incredible true story, the series, based on the podcast of science journalist Laura Beil, tells the story of a neurosurgeon who, between 2010 and 2013, caused permanent damage to more than 30 patients by detonating a grenade on the community. Dallas Medical. “I tried to suspend any judgment on him: Duntsch himself considers himself the hero of the story, not the villain,” explains Joshua, who, in the meantime, became the father of little Janie, he had with his wife Jodie Turner-Smith, and is ready to transform the idea of ​​a revival of Dawson’s Creek in a styrofoam dream.
Christopher Duntsch was sentenced to life in prison in 2018 – have you ever thought about getting in touch with him?
“I admit that at first I was curious to talk to him, but in the end, for a variety of reasons, I couldn’t. In hindsight, it was better this way: comparing myself with the people who were close to him and who saw him for what he was gave me back a truth that, surely, he would not have given me. After all this time he still thinks he’s a victim, and I don’t think talking to a narcissistic liar would help me interpret him. ‘
In your career, you have played many roles: is it better to be the good or the bad?
“For my mental health, the good is better. Take part in Dr. Death for 6 months it was an interesting journey but, at the end of the shoot, I felt the weight that I had been holding up until that moment. It was difficult to get out of it ».
Speaking of hospitals, what was it like becoming a father during a pandemic?
“The experience itself is the best thing that has ever happened to me. However, interacting with the healthcare system early on in the pandemic was nerve-wracking: in the baby’s first six weeks, the simpler issues became overwhelming. Keeping my family safe was the only important thing to do. But, thanks to the most extraordinary wife in the world and a wonderful child, I survived. ‘
What’s it like to be the only man in the family?
“I always have been. In my childhood memories it was me, my mother and my sister: I’m used to being behind enemy lines (laughs, ed)».
In some scenes of Dr. Death has been rejuvenated like in Benjamin Button: what teenager was he?
“Controversial, sometimes grumpy, but all in all happy.”
The fact that he became famous at 20 thanks to Dawson’s Creek it must certainly have influenced.
«It was an incredible and emotional experience, although not always easy. I can only be grateful. “
Today American productions focus on«nostalgia effect», gives Friends a Sex and the City. But you have always said you are against a revival. Why?
“I think people feel somewhat reassured to see something they have loved in the past. Having said that, if they ever wanted to remake the series, I think it would make sense to focus on a new group of actors. There’s no reason to see Pacey old and gray-haired. Not to mention that we should find a key that makes sense for our days ».
Guy?
«A revival of Gossip Girl is much simpler than a revival of Dawson’s Creek because we went on the air before social media and everything else: it was, in his, a much purer and more innocent product, and I think today it would be difficult to represent that idea in a world where kids are connected all the time “.
She doesn’t use social media. What doesn’t convince you?
“There is always someone who has to remind me to enter Instagram to post something. I think I’m a little too old for that. With certain things you have to be born there, but I live well anyway ».
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