As Hollywood continues to mourn James Van Der Beek‘s death, Marlon Wayans recently recalled the actor’s cameo in Scary Movie (2000).
The actor and franchise co-creator, who reprises his role as Shorty Meeks in Scary Movie 6, premiering June 5, said that Van Der Beek “was cool as hell for even doing it,” making a quick appearance in one early scene as his eponymous Dawson’s Creek character.
“He was huge on Dawson’s Creek,” Wayans told Entertainment Weekly. “He was like, ‘Oh, I’m game,’ and I was like, ‘bet.’”
In the scene, which parodied Scream (1996), Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) begins making out with her boyfriend Bobby (Jon Abrahams) in her bedroom when the WB show’s theme song, Paula Cole’s ‘I Don’t Want to Wait’, starts playing, summoning a confused Dawson to her window.
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