The 2024 Emmy Awards was an evening of remembering the perfect of the perfect when it got here to tv — and Joshua Jackson received the shock of a lifetime when strolling on stage to current the Governors Award to Greg Berlanti.
Jackson, 46, joined forces with Matt Bomer to current the award on Sunday, September 15, on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. When the appearing duo walked out on stage, “I Don’t Need to Wait” by Paula Cole performed within the background.
“Ah, sure, this tune,” Jackson quipped with a giant smile, referencing the observe that was famously the Dawson’s Creek theme tune. Jackson performed the position of Pacey Witter on the present from 1998 to 2003.
“TV historical past was made on Dawson’s Creek as Greg was the primary writer-producer to indicate a homosexual kiss on primetime between two youngsters, and that was again in 2000,” Jackson mentioned whereas on stage. “I keep in mind being so proud to be a part of that present, and on the identical time, I didn’t perceive how large it was. Greg gave us an attractive, relatable, and, sure, the primary portrait of a homosexual teen, who acted on his wishes with the identical anxiousness everybody has over their first kiss.”
Frazer Harrison/Getty Pictures That’s a wrap on the 76th annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Schitt’s Creek creator Dan Levy and his father, Eugene Levy, hosted the 2024 ceremony on Sunday, September 15, on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Nominations have been introduced two months earlier than the awards present, celebrating content material that aired between June 2023 and Could […]
The kiss Jackson was referring to was between Jack (Kerr Smith) and Ethan (Adam Kaufman) through the present’s third season.
“Like all visionary producers, he’s one step forward of the viewers together with his exhibits,” Jackson continued of Berlanti. “He opens the door, and as we undergo, we notice we’re extra snug with characters having actual life experiences than we ever may have imagined.”
Berlanti can be identified for his work on Brothers & Sisters, Everwood, Political Animals, Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and You.
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Smith, 52, beforehand recalled his Dawson’s Creek story line as Jack being “largely” an extension of Berlanti.
“We have been the primary ones to do this,” the actor informed TooFab in 2019. “It was a loopy expertise again then, and also you’re proper, take a look at each single present now, it’s fairly superb.”
Smith continued: “It was an intense expertise, and I keep in mind calling everyone I revered and mentioned, ‘Hey ought to I do that?’ Doing the primary male-male kiss, I keep in mind it was intense. I’m glad we did it and it was a part of historical past.”