How one magazine's decision to publish a false statement about his favorite ice cream flavor — mint chocolate chip, not vanilla — made a sick child cry.
James Van Der Beek has had quite the interesting career. While some may still identify him as Dawson — the dreamy lovelorn teen with Hollywood aspirations who had his own creek named after himself — most of us now recognize him as the funny and super-attractive adult he's aged into. (Some might even say James has aged like a fine wine.) Now that he plays an eccentric, egomaniacal version of himself obsessed with Dawson's Creek on Don't Trust the B**** in Apartment 23, we thought it would be fun to make the man behind Dawson Leery guess what kinds of answers he gave to teen magazines over a decade ago, when he still was Dawson Leery — and he obliged.
BuzzFeed: Something we like to do here at BuzzFeed Rewind is to find a bunch of old quizzes and interviews from over a decade ago and make you guess the answers you gave back then. I have 10 of your "favorite things" that you gave as answers to teen magazines and now-defunct Angelfire and Geocities websites back in 1999. If you're game, we'd like you to try and guess what you said back then.
James: Oh my goodness, really? (laughs) I wonder how many of them I actually said and how many they just made up. This will be fun. Let's go.
BuzzFeed: Your favorite movie.
James: In 1999? So I have to figure out what I said in 1999?
BuzzFeed: Mmm hmm.
James: OK. Let's see… Pulp Fiction?
BuzzFeed: It says here that you said Shawshank Redemption.
James: OK, that's a great movie.
BuzzFeed: A very respectable answer!
James: Yeah, totally.
