"James Van Der Week" Rehabilitates Actor's Post-Dawson's Creek Image
LatestApparently JamesVanDerMemes.com was just the beginning of an entire week of new James Van Der Beek viral content. It’s all part of The Beek’s long-overdue campaign to convince us he isn’t bitter about Crying Dawson.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly Van Der Beek explains how this week-long extravaganza came to be:
I’d been poking around [Funny or Die], laughing at all the stuff, and I wanted to join in. One of the writers there tentatively said, ‘I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a five-second GIF of you crying?’ And I said, ‘Oh, I’m well aware of it.’
Van Der Beek says he’s “so detached from Dawson” that he just laughs at the infamous Crying Dawson gif, which he spoofed earlier this week. His latest video “Asshole for Hire” was inspired by the real-life fallout from playing Dawson Leery: