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Original Cast Of “Dawson’s Creek” Reunites For Entertainment Weekly

The '90s teen drama featured one of prime time's first gay kisses.

The stars of Dawson's Creek got back together for a special feature in Entertainment Weekly.

The WB's gay-friendly teen drama, which turns 20 this year, featured a cast of future stars, including Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, James Van Der Beek, and Oscar nominee Michelle Williams. The four haven't formally reunited as a group since Dawson's 2003 series finale.

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Dawson's Creek Cast (L-R) Joshua Jackson, James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams and Kerr Smith (Photo by Kevin Mazur Archive 1/WireImage)

The quartet appear on a series of limited-edition EW covers, hitting newstands on April 3.

"I think we’ve all sort of seen each other over the years, but not everybody all together," Holmes, who starred as Joey Potter, told EW. "And never for long enough."

Dawson's was created by out screenwriter Kevin Williamson and later taken over by Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Love, Simon.)

"I think if people want a perfect snapshot of what it was like to come of age in the ’90s and be a young person in that moment, Dawson’s will always be a time capsule of that," Berlanti said.

The show was known for its raw, daring portrayals of teens—including a groundbreaking gay kiss between Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith) and Ethan Brody (Adam Kaufman).

The smooch was a landmark moment, one of the first real romantic gay kisses on primetime television, but Berlanti says he got a lot of pushback over it.

“I had to threaten to quit, basically because they wouldn’t let us have the characters kiss,” Berlanti told Indiewire. “At the time, there were shows that were fine to show lots of violence in network, but they wouldn’t allow a kiss between two gay characters. They asked me to run the show that year, and part of my agreement with them was that they would allow the character, Jack, to have a kiss. There was a lot of negotiation about that kiss.”

He added that things have changed a lot in two decades.

“I went from executives telling me, ‘You’re not allowed to have a gay kiss. If you’re gonna have a gay kiss, you have to shoot it from across the street,’ to within five years—’Wait a minute, why would you cut away here? Wouldn’t the characters kiss?’"

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