Busy Philipps Came This Close to Giving Up Acting
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
With a best-selling memoir, beloved podcast and insanely popular Instagram account, Busy Philipps was ready to quit acting for good when Tina Fey came along and offered her one of the four lead roles in this summer’s breakout comedy hit ‘Girls5eva.’ On this episode, Busy opens up about two decades in the entertainment industry that haven’t always been easy, from the intense pressure that came with her early days on ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek’ to her prematurely canceled late-night talk show ‘Busy Tonight’ on E! She also explains why her best friend Michelle Williams stays far away from social media, shares her reaction to Seth Rogen’s decision to stop working with James Franco and explains why she doubts any of Hollywood’s predators will ever “fuck with” her again.
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| 0:00.0 | If you are anything like me, this song has been fully stuck in your head for the past month and a half. |
| 0:08.3 | Hey, hey, hey, it's us. Girls five ever. |
| 0:11.3 | Girls, we're going to be famous for 500 years because it's like 5'000 of 100. |
| 0:17.4 | All we know is we're going to make this count. |
| 0:24.6 | Gonna be famous by them Cause forever's too short |
| 0:28.6 | Gonna be famous together |
| 0:31.6 | Cause that's one more than two-gather |
| 0:35.6 | This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and I am thrilled to welcome Busy Phillips as my guest this week. You might know busy from Freaks and Geeks or Dawson's Creek, Cougar Town, or her insanely |
| 0:55.9 | popular Instagram. Now she's starring in one of my absolute favorite new shows, Girls |
| 1:02.5 | Five Eva, which, thank the Lord, just got renewed for a second season on Peacock. Alongside |
| 1:09.9 | Sarah Barell, Renee Elise Goldsbury, and Paula Pell, |
| 1:13.6 | busy is one-fourth of the greatest 90s girl group that never was in this hilarious show |
| 1:19.6 | created by Meredith Scardino and produced by Tina Faye and Robert Carlock. If you loved |
| 1:25.9 | 30 Rock as much as I did, you two will be obsessed with Girls 5 Eva. |
| 1:31.7 | Bizzy and I talk about how her remarkable and unpredictable career led her to this moment. |
| 1:37.8 | And yes, we get into everything from that time James Franco got violent with her on the set of freaks and geeks, |
| 1:45.5 | to her prematurely canceled late night show and everything in between. Before we get to that interview, you may or |
| 1:51.8 | may not have noticed that the last several episodes of this podcast were recorded a few weeks |
| 1:56.5 | in advance. That's because I've been on parental leave since early May after my wife and I welcomed |
| 2:01.6 | our baby daughter to the world last month. So if I sound a little more sleep deprived than usual, |
| 2:07.8 | or you occasionally hear some faint crying in the background, that's why. All right, enough about me. |
| 2:13.8 | Let's go to my conversation with the delightful busy Phillips. It's exciting that we're |
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