August 1, 2011
We asked the actor - who has been called Dawson by fans so long that it doesn’t faze him - whether anyone has ever shouted ‘I don’t want your life,’ at him, as his ‘Varsity Blues’ character told his father.

‘It’s happened more than a few times. It’s usually out of love, or at least that’s what I tell myself,’ Van Der Beek replied.