Michelle Williams Honors ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and Her ‘Grams’ Mary Beth Peil in Sweet Speech
29.11.2022 - 18:37
/ usmagazine.com
An evening straight out of Capeside. Michelle Williams honored her Dawson’s Creek past as she paid tribute to former costar Mary Beth Peil in a heartfelt speech at the Gotham Awards on Monday, November 28.
“Whenever something good happens for me in my life, I can draw a straight line back to somebody who was meant to be here tonight, but being a New Yorker living being in a reality that you are definitely not in control of, so she’s not in the room, but she’s in my heart. Mary Beth Peil played my Grams on Dawson’s Creek,” the 42-year-old actress began while accepting a performer tribute at the 32nd annual Gotham Awards in New York City. “I was an emancipated minor when we met. I was 16 years old and I was totally alone. Mary Beth Peil was the first artist that I had ever met in my life. She didn’t call herself that, but there was something different about her. It was the way that she asked questions, the way that she leaned into conversations and how excited she seemed for every moment of every day on our TV set. And I didn’t know what this ineffable quality was, but I knew I wanted to pull my chair closer to hers. We started talking constantly. I learned that she was an opera singer. She was a Tony nominee. She was a mother. She crossed over from TV to film to theater like she was changing trains at rush hour. She could do anything.”
Williams and Peil costarred on The WB drama, which aired from 1998 to 2003, for six seasons. Dawson’s Creek also starred James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson.
“She lived an artist’s life,” Williams continued on Monday. “She was gripping and bursting with energy. She showed me that creativity was more than a mere profession. And all of this vitality was miraculously turned in my
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