James Van Der Beek and his awkward Dawson’s Creek interview questions – WBNews

It’s been nearly two decades since James Van Der Beek first appeared on Dawson’s Creek, so you can understand why it’s not high on his list of conversation topics. But during a UK promotional tour for his latest role in British comedy Carters Get Rich, it’s all anyone wants to talk to him about. Not one, but two live interviews on the same day had viewers cringing about the awkwardness of the line of questioning. In one particularly painful exchange, he was reminded of the success of his former Creek colleagues – almost as if to highlight his less than award-winning achievements by comparison. Ouch. So why can’t James Van Der Beek get a break? Image copyright Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock Image caption James looks like he’s been trying to put Dawson’s Creek behind him It all started on ITV’s This Morning, where the actor was no doubt expecting hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby’s usual cosy line of questioning. It was, after all, his first time on the daily show. Whilst introducing James, viewers were reminded of how well his fellow Dawson’s Creek co-stars had done:. “Katie Holmes is a leading Hollywood actress, Michelle Williams has received four Oscar nominations, Joshua Jackson plays the jilted husband in the Golden Globe winning drama The Affair,” they were told. “But what happened to the main man himself, Mr James Van Der Beek?” pondered Schofield, cutting to an image of the actor 20 years ago as Dawson Leery – and an unsurprisingly slightly peeved-looking…more detail