Busy Philipps

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Busy Philipps plays Mrs. George, a "cool mom" seeking the approval of her teen daughter in the new movie musical version of Mean Girls. Philipps got her start in acting as a teen on the series Freaks and Geeks. She spoke with Ann Marie Baldonado about sexism in Hollywood, collaborating with Tina Fey, and the best friendship advice her mom gave her.

Also, Ken Tucker reviews a new solo album from Mary Timony, and David Biacnulli reviews the series Shōgun.

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0:18.0	This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross.
0:21.0	Our guest actor Busy Phillips, co-stars in the series Girls 5 Eva, which begins its third season next month on Netflix.
0:30.0	It's just one of the Tina Fay projects Phillips has premiering this year.
0:34.0	She's also in the new movie musical version of the 2004 film Mean Girls.
0:39.3	Busy Phillips spoke with fresh airs Ann Marie Boldenato. Here's Anne-Marie.
0:44.0	Busy Phillips has been involved in projects lousy with teenagers, dating back to her breakout role on the critically
0:51.0	acclaimed but-cancelled show show Freaks and Geeks.
0:54.6	She was 19 playing Tough Girl Kim Kelly.
0:57.9	Since then she starred in Dawson's Creek, Cougar Town and Vice Principal's, she wins people over with her comedic work on TV shows and movies,
1:06.3	but she also does it with her honest straightforward approach to talking directly to her fans.
1:11.6	She does it through social media, her podcasts and her writing.
1:16.0	In her best-selling memoir, this will only hurt a little. She writes about her childhood and
1:21.0	her career including candid, hilarious, and also heartbreaking stories
1:25.7	about the rejection and misogyny she's dealt with in Hollywood and in the rest of her life. Before we talk about all of that, let's hear her in her latest film Mean Girls, which is the movie version of the musical
1:38.1	based on the 2004 movie, written by and starring Tina Fay.
1:43.0	All versions of Mean Girls are based on the non-fiction book,
1:46.0	Queen Bees and Wannabees,
1:48.0	about the complicated and cruel power dynamics
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