Regardless of wanting ahead to the long-awaited Dawson’s Creek reunion, actor James Van Der Beek has introduced he received’t be in attendance.
“That is the night I’d been wanting ahead to MOST since my angel Michelle Williams mentioned she was placing it collectively, manner again in January…” Van Der Beek, 48, wrote through Instagram on Sunday, September 21, simply in the future earlier than the reunion was scheduled to happen.
“So you’ll be able to think about how gutted I used to be when two abdomen viruses conspired to knock me out of fee and preserve me grounded on the worst attainable second,” he continued. “Regardless of each effort… I received’t get to be there. I received’t get to face on that stage and thank each soul within the theater for displaying up for me, and towards most cancers, once I wanted it most.”
OG stars Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson teamed up with F Most cancers for the reunion-turned-charity occasion, scheduled to be held in New York Metropolis on Monday, September 22. Former castmates Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe and Busy Philipps are additionally scheduled to attend.
The occasion will embrace a stay studying of the present’s pilot to profit the charity and Van Der Beek as he continues to battle stage 3 colorectal most cancers.
“We grew up in Capeside and that’s a bond that may final a lifetime,” Williams, who deliberate the occasion, mentioned in an announcement, referring to the long-lasting location of the hit WB sequence. “We needed to assemble round our expensive buddy James and remind him that we’re all right here. We all the time have been and we all the time might be. And I do know the followers of Dawson’s Creek really feel the identical manner.”
The present’s creator, Kevin Williamson, can be scheduled to attend.
In his Sunday submit, Van Der Beek additionally introduced who would attend the occasion in his place.
“However I DO have an understudy. A ridiculously overqualified alternative who would have been #1 on my wishlist (had I ever dreamed he’d be out there),” he wrote. “Somebody my children would positively contemplate an improve over me… Plus, he already is aware of how you can get to the theater. In order that’s handy.”
He continued, “The function of ‘Dawson,’ often performed by James Van Der Beek… Can be performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Can’t imagine I simply received to kind that. Everybody please take pleasure in all of the love in that room. Shine some on my household. I might be beaming and receiving from afar in a mattress in Austin.”
The actor then thanked his last-minute alternative for stepping in to fill his function.
“And thanks @lin_manuel. You had been a hero to my children earlier than… now you’re a demigod.”
