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"  Though there&amp;#039;s a part of us that will always think of Busy Philips as part Kim Kelly (Freaks and Geeks) and part Pacey&amp;#039;s girlfriend (Dawson&amp;#039;s Creek), we can&amp;#039;t help but love her just as much as Laurie Keller on TBS&amp;#039; Cougar Town. The actress and mom recently joined forces with Clorox to carol for a cause in New York, but also stopped by Marie Claire to chat about the hit show, her plans for the holidays, and some of life&amp;#039;s more bleachable moments. Marie Claire: So what&amp;#039;s the family doing for the holidays? [BP is married to the very cool screenwriter, Marc Silverstein (Never Been Kissed, He&amp;#039;s Just Not That Into You)] Busy Philipps: We are staying in LA and we&amp;#039;re going to be doing a big Christmas celebration with my family. Everyone is coming. And then we&amp;#039;re going to take a little family vacation to San Miguel de Allende. MC: San Miguel, Mexico \u2013 that&amp;#039;s a lesser-known spot. How&amp;#039;d you happen upon there? BP: Irene Neuwirth [one of the hottest jewelry designers at the moment and oh, a good friend of BP&amp;#039;s] has been going there for years for inspiration. She loves it. It&amp;#039;s a really interesting city. People think when you say you&amp;#039;re going to Mexico for the holidays that you&amp;#039;re going to some beach but it&amp;#039;s an old colonial town in the mountains. It gets cold at night and nice during the day. It&amp;#039;s just kind of magical. MC: That&amp;#039;s awesome and cool to get off the beaten path a little bit. BP: Ha yes, and the first time I really learned my lesson. I did not pack practical shoes. And the whole city is cobblestones. I didn&amp;#039;t know! I was like, &amp;quot;Irene, thanks a lot!&amp;quot; It was a disaster. I ended up wearing like the same pair of New Balance sneakers the entire time. MC: Haha! Cobblestones? Seems like it would be really old-world and artsy. BP: It is, and my friend gets her fabric from there and makes these really cute purses. She sells them on Etsy. They&amp;#039;re like\u2026 I just have to show it to you. [whips out her iPhone] Like that! Like little cosmetic cases. It&amp;#039;s called Block &amp;amp;amp; Battaglia. MC: They&amp;#039;re so chic! Love! So tell us, how did you get involved with Clorox&amp;#039;s holiday campaign? BP: They asked me if I wanted to help launch the &amp;quot;Bleach Away Holiday Messes&amp;quot; program this year. To be honest with you, I have two kids now so I have a lot of bleachable moments of my own. MC: Haha I bet. With a 5-year-old [Birdie] and a 5-month-old [Cricket] every other minute must be an &amp;quot;Oh shit!&amp;quot; moment. BP: I mean, it is. It really is. But it also feels kind of great too. Like even if I never had another child again, I did good, I had two.  MC: Definitely.  MC: And then you head back to LA to keep shooting Cougar Town (the fifth season!)? BP: Yes, it&amp;#039;s crazy. It&amp;#039;s awesome. When I started the show Birdie was a baby. And now she&amp;#039;s 5. And now I have another baby. It&amp;#039;s crazy. Totally nuts. MC: Well it&amp;#039;s such a good show! And you&amp;#039;ve had a great career in television but also in film. Do you have a preference? BP: I love working in television. I&amp;#039;ve been doing it since I was 19. I think especially as a woman your opportunities for developing a three dimensional character, a real person that feels layered and multi-faceted, is better in television. Also film is tricky because there&amp;#039;s like a handful of people that are the stars of movies and then you&amp;#039;re sort of relegated to: &amp;quot;Am I going to be the straight wife of a really funny guy who gets all the jokes and I&amp;#039;m just like, &amp;quot;Waaahh, whiny, and shaking my finger at him?&amp;quot; Or, the girlfriend that wants to get married and he&amp;#039;s so crazy? So there seems to be more opportunity, for me and for where I&amp;#039;m at in my career, in television.  MC: And television just keeps getting better. So many great, great shows now. BP: People want to do television. Movie stars see the benefits and get excited to have that opportunity. You look at someone like David Fincher [producer of Netflix mega hit The House of Cards] doing a television show \u2013 I mean I think if you had said that 20 years ago people would think you were crazy. It&amp;#039;s awesome. MC: Totally. BP: And I&amp;#039;ve been such a huge fan of television for so many years. I like that it&amp;#039;s becoming pass\u00E9 to say, &amp;#039;I don&amp;#039;t have a TV.&amp;#039; I just hate those people. Enough. By the way, you have a computer? You have a television. Be sure to catch Busy in the fifth season premiere of Cougar Town on January 7th at 10pm ET on TBS.  This interview has been condensed and edited. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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