Joshua Jackson Says His 'Dawson's Creek' Salary Gave Him 'Imposter Syndrome'

Joshua Jackson’s huge “Dawson’s Creek” checks gave him a critical case of “imposter syndrome” throughout his 20s.

The star, 44, revealed his preliminary response to the turn-of-the-millenium teen drama and its success, telling The Sunday Occasions, “I wouldn’t need to return to my twenties once more, that quantity of angst.”

For Jackson, who performed the sarcastic Pacey Witter on the present, the cash simply didn’t add up.

“I'd make more cash doing 4 episodes of ‘Dawson’s Creek’ than most of my buddies’ dad and mom made in a yr,” he defined.

Josh Jackson appears at an event in Burbank, California, in 2003.
Josh Jackson seems at an occasion in Burbank, California, in 2003.
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“That was the middle of my imposter syndrome,” the “Fringe” actor added. He remembered pondering, “You’re making an attempt to set me as much as be a task mannequin to children, and I positively am not, and also you’re paying me all this cash that I don’t deserve.”

The WB present premiered in 1998 and adopted the fictional city of Capeside, Massachusetts, and its residents for six seasons.

“Dawson’s Creek” additionally helped set up the careers of actors James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes and Michelle Williams.

Describing the present’s enchantment to The Occasions, Jackson mentioned, “I feel the key to the present was that it didn’t speak to younger folks like they’re silly.”

The cast of 'Dawson's Creek' poses for a photo in 1997.
The solid of 'Dawson's Creek' poses for a photograph in 1997.
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“These characters and what they had been going by felt actual. We had been making an attempt to inform tales about these moments in your life and we had been shut sufficient to it in our personal ages that we deeply remembered what that angst was.”

Although Jackson remembered pondering he was overcompensated, main man Van Der Beek appeared to have a really totally different expertise. In 2012, Van Der Beek instructed NBC’s instructed NBC’s “At present” Present that he earned “nearly nothing” because the title character.

“There was no residual cash,” he revealed. “I used to be 20. It was a nasty contract. I noticed nearly nothing from that.”

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