Nearly 5 months aft his decease astatine property 48, 1 of James Van Der Beek‘s last onscreen roles is group to debut adjacent week.
On Saturday, Elle prima Lexi Minetree raved that her precocious co-star “brought truthful overmuch life” to his domiciled arsenic Dean Wilson successful nan Legally Blonde prequel series, premiering July 1 connected Prime Video, arsenic she said to Deadline astatine nan streamer’s Obsessed Fest.
“He’s wonderful. It was unthinkable moving pinch him,” she said of Van Der Beek. “He’s truthful charismatic, and I’m truthful excited for group to get to spot his performance, because he conscionable brought truthful overmuch life to this character, and to set, honestly.”
Minetree continued, “I retrieve gathering him and conscionable emotion truthful overmuch warmth, and he moreover brought his daughters to set. It was really incredible. I cognize this is his past show, and I deliberation fans are gonna beryllium successful for a existent treat, getting to spot him. We miss him truthful much.”
After Van Der Beek was formed successful Elle past year, nan character died astatine property 48 successful February, having antecedently shared his colorectal crab test successful 2024.
Created by Laura Kittrell, Elle stars Minetree arsenic nan titular early Harvard rule student Elle Woods, pursuing her struggle to fresh successful arsenic a precocious schoolhouse student successful Seattle.
The bid besides stars Zac Looker, Jacob Moskovitz, Chandler Kinney, Gabrielle Policano, Tom Everett Scott and June Diane Raphael.