NEED TO KNOW
- PEOPLE has an exclusive sneak peek of the season 2 premiere of Busy Philipps’ QVC+ late-night talk show, Busy This Week
- In the Wednesday, May 21, episode, she is joined by longtime friend, Michelle Williams
- In the clip, the pair recall how they instantly clicked 25 years ago
Busy Philipps and Michelle Williams clicked instantaneously on the Dawson’s Creek set.
In an exclusive sneak peek of Philipps’ QVC+ late-night talk show, Busy This Week, the actresses recall how immediately they connected in North Carolina more than 25 years ago.
In the chat, Philipps, 45, confesses that she was nervous to join the hit series. Philipps joined during season 5 in 2001, as Joey’s (Katie Holmes) college roommate, and though she didn’t yet know Williams, they “had heard of each other.”
“I had gotten added to the cast for the college years, and I remember being very, very nervous, and the first person I met was James [Van Der Beek],” Philipps recalls, before she notes that Williams, now 44, was crossing the street from a local market with a sleeve of Fig Newtons in hand at the time.
As the two reminisced over the specific detail of their meeting, Philipps quickly adds that she knew why she loved Williams “immediately.”
“I’m gonna cry,” Philipps tearfully begins. “Because I just felt like you got it. You just understood me.”
“I feel like — oh no, I’m gonna cry — my entire life I’ve always been like, misunderstood and prejudged by people,” she continues. “And for whatever reason, you just instantly were like, ‘I got you.’ ”
Williams interjects to say, “I loved you.”
“You really did,” Philipps says. “That’s what it was,” Williams confirms.
“I really loved you, too,” Philipps adds. “And the Fig Newtons in your hand, that was really nice.”
Philipps then confesses that they “used to cry so much together.” Noting, “But now you don’t let me cry as much, and you don’t cry as much. Do you want to tell them why?”
“Because it’s the delicate under-eye area,” Williams cheekily replies, with Philipps adding, “Because, you guys, under your eyes is a very delicate area and we can’t risk it.”
“I’ll tell you to stop,” Williams says before quoting herself, “ ‘Don’t ruin the delicate under-eye area, it’s not worth it.’ ”
In a second moment from the talk show, the women reminisce about nights out in Wilmington while filming Dawson’s Creek, when they’d hit up “fancy restaurants in town” to indulge in the free bread baskets — plus a glass of wine and a salad to share.
“We just know each other and get each other in such a deep, fundamental way at this point,” Philipps told Page Six of their friendship in a March interview.
They’ve “been there” for each other “through so many different moments in each other’s lives” Philipps said — “really wonderful ones” and moments that they “might never, ever recover from.”
“When you have a friend like that, you’re blessed,” she told the outlet. “That’s all you can really ever hope for in this life.”
Williams told PEOPLE nearly a decade ago that she and Philipps are essentially platonic soulmates.
“I’m so in love with her,” Williams said of Philipps. “She’s proof that the love of your life does not have to be a man! That’s the love of my life right there.”
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Busy This Week season 2 premieres on Wednesday, May 21. Dawson’s Creek is available to stream on Hulu and Disney+.
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