Busy Philipps‘ lips aren’t sealed about her steamy kiss with Joshua Jackson during the recent Dawson’s Creek cast reunion in New York City.
On Sunday, Philipps shared photos and video of the buzzy moment with her former onscreen love interest during the one-night-only charity event on Sept. 22, and shared the story of how their smooch came to be.
“LOL to Josh’s response to me when I said after our last rehearsal, ‘I mean we COULD really kiss,'” Philipps wrote on Instagram. “And he looked at me and said, ‘I mean…I think we gotta give the people what they want.'”
Busy Philipps and Joshua Jackson on ‘Dawson’s Creek’.
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During last week’s event, most of the Dawson’s Creek cast reunited to read the pilot script onstage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, in partnership with F Cancer. Since Philipps joined the show in season 5 as Audrey, she read the part of Tamara Jacobs (originally portrayed by Leann Hunley), the teacher who seduced her 15-year-old student Pacey (Jackson) early in the series.
When Jackson and Philipps got to the scene in the pilot where Pacey and Tamara kiss, the actors recreated that moment along with an exaggerated dip as the crowd went wild. Watch Philipps’ video of that moment below:
Philipps and Jackson’s characters would later go on to date on the show.
Michelle Williams organized the Dawson’s Creek reunion event for the cast of the iconic 1998 teen drama, bringing together Katie Holmes, Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, and Meredith Monroe, along with Jackson and Philipps. Series star James Van Der Beek backed out last minute due to illness, but still made a surprise appearance at the event in a sweet video message for attendees and his fellow cast members.
“I have been looking forward to this night for months and months and months ever since my angel Michelle Williams said she would put it together,” Van Der Beek, 48, said in the clip, one day after a stomach virus led to him exiting the charity event aimed at raising money to help fight cancer. Van Der Beek was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2024.
He then joked that his replacement in the live reading at the event was a “young up-and-comer,” with the role of Dawson being taken over by Hamilton legend Lin-Manuel Miranda, who ran on stage after the clip played.
‘Dawson’s Creek’ cast reunites onstage.
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Video from the event shows Van Der Beek’s children singing the beloved drama’s theme song, Paula Cole’s “I Don’t Want to Wait,” with cast members on stage, while the audience stood during the performance.
In her social media post, Philipps praised the Van Der Beek family for “continuing to show us all what real love and strength looks like in the face of this disease.”
She continued, “James was missed so much but his videos and the light of his family lifted us all up!! F cancer for REAL.”