Dawson’s Jackson Makes West End Debut???

Dawson's Creek’s Joshua Jackson could be the latest in a line of young Hollywood stars to make their West End debuts. Jackson has been in talks with Out of the Blue Productions about starring in a London play in late autumn 2004. Out of the Blue has previously been responsible for the West End debuts of many Hollywood young guns, not least Jake Gyllenhaal and Matt Damon in This Is Our Youth, and earlier this year, Julia Stiles and Aaron Eckhart in David Mamet’s Oleanna. Jackson - best known for playing bad boy Pacey for six years in US television’s Dawson’s Creek, which finished in 2003 – has appeared on the big screen in Cruel Intentions, Scream 2 and The Laramie Project and will soon be seen in Cursed with Christina Ricci and Shadow Dancer with Harvey Keitel. In case you’re wondering about Jackson’s pulling power in theatreland, apparently when he attended Out of the Blue’s Oleanna at the Garrick this summer, he was mobbed by screaming women and had to be rescued by the theatre management.

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