Williams gushes about working with Mary Beth Peil on the beloved teen series.
Jen has always loved her Grams.
I really appreciate the way that people let us kind of have a childhood honestly."

Michelle Williams.NBC
“It was really nice to be taken out of Los Angeles,” she says.
But Peil was more than a parental figure for Williams.
The Emmy-winning actress calls Peil “the first real artist that I ever met.”

Michelle Williams and Mary Beth Peil on ‘Dawson’s Creek’.Fred Norris/The WB
Williams continues, “She told me stories about New York City and plays and playwrights.
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