Joshua Jackson, a.k.a. Pacey, Yummy Teacher’s Pet

Joshua Jackson, a.k.a. Pacey, Yummy Teacher’s Pet by Roxanne McDonald

Celebrity mags feature photos of Jackson and Kruger, but more interesting is Josh as solo [and sexy] talent.

Grocery store impulse rags and countless online boards and news sites show photos of Josh and his latest flame, Diane Kruger, German actress best known for her roles in National Treasure and Troy. He and his evidently new girlfriend were spotted by Star, for example, dining at Chin Chin in West Hollywood, the accompanying blurb emphasizing how all eyes were on the couple…and all minds likely on the question of whether the two are as serious as they appeared to be.

Interesting is how (though the mag overlooked the irony) the photo shows Dian stroking Joshua’s chin…at the restaurant Chin-Chin, heh, heh.

But more interesting is how far Josh has come to establish a respectable name for himself as a fine performer. First, as any Dawson’s Creek follower will gushingly tell you, he was the wise-cracking boy with the relentless wanderlust—or just lust. In the role of Pacey Witter Jackson could well have been typecast as the dark and swarthy type with the (yes, cliché, I know) blue bedroom eyes—or even just climbed out of the bed in that bedroom look. He could have been stuck in the role of the predatory beyond his teenaged years Pacey, always fixated on finding flings with older women (the hottest and most controversial but compelling storyline on the Creek, if you ask me).

Instead, Jackson made his way into even slicker roles and even savvier parts. For instance, besides appearing as himself in films like Scream, Josh played the nasty Blaine Tuttle in Cruel Intentions, the twenty-something twenty-first-century filmic version of Les Liaisons dangereuses and modernized remake of Dangerous Liasons.

Besides being the voice of one Jesse Grass, for the Simpsons episode where Lisa gets involved in proactive environmental efforts and a comatose Paul Gold in the stunning Safety of Objects, Josh also stuns viewers with stellar performances as the hopeful young writer, Jeremy Taylor in The Shadow Dancer and as the lead role of Duncan Shorter in Aurora Borealis.

While one writer—at a site or blog called Socialite, if I recall—asks, “What the hell happened to his career?” this writer reports being a forty-something who shamelessly fixated on Pacey and who continues to follow Josh… wishing them both well all the while.

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