Joshua Jackson got a stern talking to from Emilio Estevez when filming The Mighty Ducks sequel after acting like a “little d—” on set.
“I, kind of, learned how to be on set from Emilio, because I didn’t know any of this stuff,” Jackson, 46, said during his Tuesday, March 11, appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “I was just a child.”
Jackson debuted as Charlie Conway in 1992 in the first Mighty Ducks movie alongside Estevez, 62, who played Coach Gordon Bombay. The duo returned for two more movies, released in 1994 and 1996, respectively.
On the set of the second movie, D2: The Mighty Ducks, Jackson recalled getting some tough love from his seasoned costar.
“We had this whole sequence [when] we were actually at the pond, the professional rink. There was about to be a professional team,” Jackson recalled. “One day we had 20,000 people. Literally, they filled the arena for us to play hockey.”
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He continued, “When I was coming off, I don’t know why — either I was just being a little d— or I was tired or whatever — but there was a bunch of people waiting for autographs, and I just blew past them to go to the locker room.”
Estevez confronted Jackson following the incident.
“He’s like, ‘Don’t ever do that again,’” Jackson recalled. Estevez apparently asked: “Why do you think you get to go out there and skate in front of all these people?”
The Breakfast Club alum told the young Jackson that fans are the ones who keep him employed.
“Do not ever forget who it is that you’re here for,” Jackson recalled Estevez insisting. “It was a really important reframing for my 15-year-old self. Of just remember who you are and what’s actually important.”
While the Mighty Ducks film franchise officially came to an end in 1996, Disney+ briefly rebooted the series in 2021 for a show titled The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. There was a reunion episode with some OG cast members — but Jackson was not a part of it.
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“I was in the process of playing a sociopathic spinal surgeon so I wasn’t available to be in the first season,” Jackson said to Esquire at the time, referring to his role in the 2021 Peacock series Dr. Death. However, the actor did weigh in on what he thinks Charlie Conway is up to now.
“I would say things worked out well for him. He’s probably somehow peripherally involved in the Minnesota Wilds organization,” he said. “Maybe [he] settled down in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, got a couple of little kids of his own, hopefully. I think Charlie did alright.”
