More than 25 years after launching Dawson’s Creek, Kevin Williamson is taking audiences to another body of water in one of his most personal projects yet.
With Netflix‘s The Waterfront, premiering Thursday on the streamer, the series creator revealed that he was “loosely inspired” by his family and his late father, “a fisherman who got into a little trouble smuggling some drugs on his fishing boat.”
“But it was really small time stuff,” he noted to the New York Post. “He was caught and arrested. He paid the price.”
“He always said, ‘Wait till I’m dead.’ But I do know my dad has a big sense of humor and I’m sure wherever he is, he’s happy knowing I did this show,” added Williamson.
Despite the patriarch’s checkered history, Williamson remembers his father as “the best man ever, and so I was like, ‘how did such a good man take a left turn?’ I feel like we’re in a world now where everyone has a side hustle….Everyone’s trying to survive and they’re doing what they can just to pay the bills. I really wanted to tap in that struggle.”
‘The Waterfront’s Rafael L. Silva, Melissa Benoist, Kevin Williamson, Holt McCallany, Danielle Campbell and Jake Weary
In The Waterfront, things spiral out of control when the Buckleys turn to drug smuggling in attempt to save their once-thriving North Carolina fishing empire. The series stars Melissa Benoit, Mario Bello, Holt McCallany and Jake Weary.
