Dawson Creek actors were a-holes

June 4, 2009 by Lance Carter

The former showrunner of Dawson’s Creek, Tom Kapinos talked recently about taking over the show after creator Kevin Williamson bailed.

What was it like working with Katie Holmes, James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams?

“The experience was miserable,” he said. “But it was a four-year boot camp. It was like going to TV grad school and learning how to run a television show. Anybody on that show who could make a decision was allowed to run it at some point. I inherited the very awkward college years, and I almost ran the show into the ground. But I learned everything that I needed to know about how to run a show.

When someone asked,“What was it specifically that made it such a challenge?”

He said: “It was the four monstrous actors at the core of it. They were very young, and they got very famous, and they made life miserable for any writer or producer on the show.”