While the two have stayed in touch over the years, Jackson says working with Holmes again felt “magical.” He compares the experience to reconnecting with a friend who defined your college years. “If whoever you had the most fun with during your college years — when you were crazy and passionate in it — and then you come back after all these years with marriages and kids and career and life, and you have the opportunity to go back and do that favorite college project again,” he says. For Jackson, the reunion has also offered a chance to see Holmes in a new light. “As a grown man now, to be able to witness and appreciate my friend not just as an actress but as a director and as a writer and as a producer,” he says. “Katie’s just a super-impressive woman.”
Joshua Jackson says aging feels freeing — and reflects on health, family and the loss of his "Dawson’s Creek" costar James Van Der Beek.
