Talk about catching some Quack Flack.
“Mighty Ducks” star Joshua Jackson revealed Emilio Estevez scolded him on set when he was just a teenager after he seemingly ignored a flock of fans.
Jackson said he had finished filming a scene for “D2: The Mighty Ducks” — the second installment of the hit Disney trilogy — at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, Calif. in 1993 when Estevez confronted him for giving the crowd a cold shoulder.
“As I was coming off (the ice), I don’t know why — either I was just being a little d–k or I was tired — but there was a bunch of people waiting for autographs,” Jackson said during Tuesday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
“I just blew past them to go to the locker room. Emilio pulled me to the side and he’s like, ‘don’t ever do that again.’”
The three-time Teen Choice Award winner told Brooke Shields, who was filling in for Clarkson, that he was initially confused by Estevez’s comments and asked why it mattered.
“Don’t ever ever do that again,” Estevez warned again. Why do you think you get to go out there and skate in front of all these people? This is who keeps you employed. Do not ever forget who it is that you are here for.”
“I was quite young and you know, I kind of learned how to be on set from Emilio because I didn’t know any of this stuff,” Jackson added
Jackson was 15 years old when he reprised his role as Charlie Conway in the “Mighty Ducks” sequel while Estevez, who played the lawyer-turned-coach Gordon Bombay, was 31 years old.
Shields, who also started as a child actress in “The Blue Lagoon, shared that she’s had to learn a similar lesson.
“My mom used to say ‘every person is one person and that relationship is just between you and them and you have to respect it,’” Shields said. “It does get overwhelming at times.”
The “Dawson’s Creek” star agreed and added that the lesson “was a really important reframing” for him to remember who he was and “what’s actually important.”
Estevez later returned to the franchise for the short-lived Disney+ spinoff “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers — but without Jackson.
However, he departed the series after one season over “creative differences” — days after Deadline reported that Estevez quit “over the show’s COVID vaccination requirement.”
“This was nothing more than a good old-fashioned contract dispute and not, as some would believe, an anti-vaccine position,” Estevez said in 2021.
The original “Mighty Ducks” writer Steven Brill had hoped Jackson would return for the show, but production issues arose.
“With Josh we always talked about when we’re going to bring him back, we’re going to bring him back in a big substantial real way. COVID made it hard,” Brill told EW. “He actually just had a baby right in the middle of this and the idea of him coming up wasn’t practical or possible.
