Busy Philipps has admitted the Dawson's Creek cast were still hopeful James Van Der Beek would join their reunion "up until the last second".
The 48-year-old actor - who is battling stage three cancer - pulled out of a live reading of the show's pilot episode at the Richard Rogers Theatre in New York last month after falling ill, but his castmates refused to give up hope that he'd be able to get on stage to read his character Dawson Leery's lines.
