Mary Margaret Humes: ...and after, um, I think it was 5 weeks into the show, we were the highest rated show in Warner Brother television network history, so yeah
Stephanie Edwards: Good grief.
MMH: (laughing) We have a little job security, I think.
Will Schreiner: Well, that’s good. So tell me the show is about a bunch of kids in a creek?
SE: Mmhmm, yah
MMH: The show is about coming of age.
WS: Coming of age.
MMH: Four teenagers coming of age. And I think it really, um, reaches a vast audience because everybody can empathize with at least one of the characters on the show, whether they’re, you know reliving their moment, living in the moment, or anticipating the moments of like the first kiss and the first break-up.
SE: Except that Mary-Margaret plays the wife who’s having an affair.
MMH: (regretfully) Yah, I am.
SE: Even thought John Wesley Shipp plays the husband.
WS: Right, right.
MMH: Well, can you imagine having an affair when you have a husband...
SE: (interrupting) No
MMH: ... like John Wesley Shipp?
SE: No
MMH: He’s gorgeous, he’s sexy, he’s talented. I looked at him, I’m like, oh yah, I can see why I’m cheating on this guy. (chuckles)
SE: Sure..... Do we have a scene to show them from this, uh, torrid...
MMH: I think maybe we do.
SE: A scene now featuring Mary-Margaret.

The clip shown is from episode 4 Carnal Knowledge when she asks Dawson why she didn’t see him at the station. He was there, but found her kissing Bob, and he ran off, and she doesn’t know that he saw what happened and is confused as to why he’s acting so pre-occupied.

WS (host): Well, there you go. So, you have to, you have to give him guidance. How is the relationship like with your son?
SE: Is that the fella you’re having the affair with?
MMH: (laughing) No, that’s my son.
WS: That’s her son.
All three of them laugh
SE: He does play your son...
MMH: He plays my son. He’s actually 21 years old in real age, but he’s playing, um 15. But I have to tell you the cutest little story. When I first met James I got off an airplane, I had no make-up on, we shoot down in Wilmington, North Carolina. We’re staying at this hotel where there’s not even a bus boy, or uh a bell captain to take any luggage...
WS: (interrupting) Vintage hotel.
MMH: Yah yah yah. Smells like uh, Lysol this hotel. Anyways I get out the
WS: (interrupting) Check out time and a jump out time
SE laughs
MMH: (laughing)Yah, pretty much. Pretty much... Um, so anyways I get off the elevator with all of my bags and I see this really cute kid walking towards me and I’m thinking to myself, oh my goodness, if this is the guy that I’m having the affair with, my life is good!
SE: Mmhmm
MMH: And we walk by each other, and he said “Hey” and I said “Hey”. He said “are you on Dawson’s Creek” and I said “well yes I am and are you” and he says “yes”and I said “Who are you?” and he said (pauses) “I’m Dawson”
SE: Mmhmm
MMH: And I’m like “Oh my God, you can’t be my son and he says “Hi Mommy”.
SE: Right, yah.
WS:It makes you feel older.
SE: It is so painful, which makes us.. . you know, don’t get me started on this, because...
WS: (interrupting) Well then don’t start (jokingly)
SE: Mothers on series these days are very close to the age of the sons. It is not so with the dads and, the uh, the children.
MMH: Yah
SE: Yah, but uh, you’re dealing with it.
MMH: I’m dealing with it, yah. Well, we have our little kissing scenes like the little pecks on the cheek. Every morning like hi honey, good morning honey, we always, um, look at each other and say (laughing) “No tongue, no tongue”.
SE: (jokingly) Important in a relationship
All three are laughing
MMH: (laughing) Well, there is that, yah
WS: Do your fans get mad at you for being this hussy?
MMH: Um, some of them. I get a lot of fan mail from men that do like me. But I get some fan mail from kids saying, you know “ Why are you this mean Mommy?” And, actually, I was in Gelson’s the other day in the produce department, a little girl came up to me and said “I just hate what you’re doing to your husband!” and I’m like “It’s only” [you know] “television, honey”.
SE: It’s pretend.
WS: It’s only a show folks,
MMH: (interrupting) yah
WS: It’s only a show.
WS: Well, Tuesday nights at 9 on the WB Dawson’s Creek. Mary-Margaret Humes thanks for being with us.
MMH: Thank you
SE: She is huge for good reasons. Very talented and we’re glad you came.
MMH: Thank you Stephanie.
SE: You betcha.

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