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 on Sunday Today

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“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.”

Dawson’s Creek

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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