Auditions do not sound like a good time. Maybe it’s our fear of rejection. Maybe it’s that the thought of talking to a camera sends hives all over our bodies and makes us lose our ability to speak.
We do love hearing about other people’s audition processes and seeing their audition tapes, though. Though we aren’t seeing an audition tape here, Joshua Jackson is talking about auditioning for Dawson’s Creek.
Pacey is life.
The actor was on the Dinners On Me podcast and talked about his audition for the show. He said, “I think I had like nine auditions for — I think first for Pacey, then for Dawson, then back to Pacey. And then when I made it to the final, final, final thing, they take you to the Warner Bros. Ranch.”
He then added, “In that room are 35 potential kids who are now, like, put into this Hunger Games moment. And you spend literally the entire day getting called in groups, right, like, ‘Okay, you two. You four.’ Getting taken back to the room, you audition, and then you come out, and…four people are just gone. And then two people are gone.”
And continued, “The final cut down, I used the washroom, and I hear the gong go off,” he recalled. “I come out of the toilet and now every executive from the WB has come from every office everywhere and is just standing there, staring at me and James and Katie and Michelle, as we’re like, ‘Oh, this is where they eat us, I guess. This is where they put us in the pot.’ And they’re like, ‘Congratulations, you just got the job!’ I don’t even think I knew which role it was that I finally auditioned for.”
We watched Dawson’s Creek religiously for the entire six seasons that it was on. Jackson starred alongside James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, and Michelle Williams in the series. The series ended in 2003.
