"Marcos and I were sitting there going, 'Who are we going to get to do this little opening bit,'" Williamson tells Entertainment Weekly. "And we asked [Roerig and Davis], they were in Atlanta, and they came up to do it.

The main characters in Kevin Williamson's Netflix series are a multigenerational cast of adults whose lives are glossier and grittier than what audiences remember from the 'Dawson’s' gang.

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,