Katie holmes says she 'wasn’t aware' there is a 'dawson's creek' whatsapp group chat: 'i never check it'

Katie Holmes has some catching up to do with her former _Dawson's Creek _costars. In a new interview with U.K. outlet _The Times_, Holmes, 45, said that although she likes to keep in

touch with many of her former castmates, Whatsapp proves a bit "too much" for her. In response to a comment about there being a long-running _Dawson’s Creek_ WhatsApp group chat

(according to costar Joshua Jackson), Holmes joked with fake outrage: "Really?" "All of us text every now and then, but I wasn’t aware of the WhatsApp," she said.

"But you know what? I’m really bad at WhatsApp. I never check it because it’s a little too much." Holmes — who played main character Dawson Leery's best friend Joey Potter in

the 1990s teen series — said that she keeps in touch with Jackson, lead James Van Der Beek and costar Michelle Williams "every now and then." "Everyone's grown up and is

busy, but the bond will forever be there," she told the outlet. Elsewhere in her interview with _The Times_, the actress revealed that her time on the series helped inspire her fashion

sensibilities. "I feel my education in clothes and their meaning came out of working in television and movies, working with great costume designers and having it explained to me what it

means if a character has a cable-knit sweater over a plain sweater, and how that reveals a part of them," she said. "I fell in love with thinking like that, and letting the

clothes really dictate a certain part of someone’s essence," she added. _Dawson's Creek _aired on the WB (now the CW) from 1998 to 2003. Holmes has been candid about how the drama

series shaped her career in the past. Just last year, she spoke with _Glamour_ about how it helped her put her teenage feelings into words. THE PEOPLE PUZZLER CROSSWORD IS HERE! HOW QUICKLY

CAN YOU SOLVE IT? PLAY NOW! "I felt like, as a teenager, I had so many different feelings, trying to go from being a girl to a woman," Holmes explained. "And I felt like

[showrunner Kevin Williamson] had this way of putting words to those feelings." The actress also shared that playing Joey in the show helped her process her real-life teenage

challenges. "So for me, playing that role, I was like, 'Oh, that's what that means. Oh, I get that_.'_ I loved doing it. It was a really fun, profound experience,"

she told _Glamour_. NEVER MISS A STORY — SIGN UP FOR PEOPLE'S FREE DAILY NEWSLETTER TO STAY UP-TO-DATE ON THE BEST OF WHAT PEOPLE HAS TO OFFER​​, FROM CELEBRITY NEWS TO COMPELLING HUMAN

INTEREST STORIES.  Holmes, who is mom to 18-year-old daughter Suri, also previously opened up about her feelings about the show's longevity, given that it still has fans after more

than 20 years of being off the air. "It's pretty wild," she said during an April 2023 appearance on Sirius XM's _The Jess Cagle Show_. "I mean, I'm kind of

amazed that people are connecting to it — only because the world was, it was right before phones and ... before the internet really took off and social media, and life now is so different

than the simplicity that was portrayed between this group of friends."