'Dawson's Creek' Alum Compares Being On The Show To Working 'A Factory Job'

Michelle Williams just spilled some bittersweet tea about her time on Dawson's Creek.

In a joint interview for Variety, the Oscar-nominated actress revealed the hit teen drama series — on which she starred as Jen Lindley, who died on the series finale — wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. The show, Williams admits, at times seemed more like factory work than an actual acting gig. Ouch!

While Williams remembers her tenure on Dawson's Creek fondly as "an incredible learning experience," the 38-year-old basically said it got pretty monotonous. “We did 22 episodes a year, and you’d be getting scripts at the last minute and you had zero input,” she recalled. “It was a little like a factory job."

While it would be the experience that would discourage her from taking many more TV roles once the show ended in 2003, Williams, who made her comeback this year on FX's Fosse/Verdon, admits times have certainly changed. “When this came around, people had been saying for a long time, ‘Television is different now.’ And I could see that that was true and that it was something that I should open myself up to,” she admitted.

Even so, this isn't the first time the Greatest Showman star has blasted Dawson's Creek, telling PopEater in 2010 that she felt like a "mobster" on the show: “You set up a shop selling pizza but in the back you’re laundering money. You’re doing one thing in plain sight and secretly plotting something else. I was plotting my tastes, my interests, my beliefs and hopes for what I could be.”

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