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Want to talk hockey? Milan Kundera? The tragedy of genocide in Sudan? Former Dawson's Creek star Joshua Jackson is happy to oblige. No topic is out-of-bounds, save the love life of his ex, Katie Holmes (''I do care deeply,'' says Jackson, 27, ''but I can't talk about it''). Rolling in from clearing brush around his L.A. canyon home (the staunch liberal quickly changes ''clearing brush'' to ''gardening'' to avoid presidential comparisons), he narrates his last two years, spent shooting Americano, with Dennis Hopper; Aurora Borealis, costarring Donald Sutherland; and Shadows in the Sun, opposite Harvey Keitel. ''They're all about guys going through that crisis 20s moment of, All the doors are open — which one am I supposed to step through?''
One door Jackson opened took him to London's West End in February for his professional stage debut alongside Patrick Stewart in David Mamet's A Life in the Theater; exhilarated by the experience, he's looking for a play to do in NYC this fall. ''It's the only medium where it's my performance, for better and for worse,'' he says. As for Dawson's? ''God, that was so long ago,'' he says. ''It's how people must feel about college.'' Now, Jackson is spazzing out about the return of the NHL (''It's like food'') and looking forward to the next acting gig: ''Over 17 years, I've played hockey, learned to row, I've been a dog, got blown up.... It satisfies the 5-year-old intellectual curiosity, you know? Where I can do anything for six months and then move on.''
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