She spoke slowly and carefully about the first time a death threat was sent to her family home, which she shares with her husband Marc Silverstein and two children, one of whom has come out as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. To her fans, of course, this is a large part of the attraction as she put it, “a lot of people consider me a personality just for being myself.” But not every Hollywood star is willing to fight for their values in such a public way- and Philipps knows firsthand that advocacy can come at cost. Craig Barritt / Getty Images for Rao's Homemadeīeing outspoken is baked into her personal brand, so to Philipps, even her most controversial opinions are of a piece with everything she stands for.
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We have to figure out how to correct it, and I can tell you it’s not going to be from fighting.” Busy Philipps visits The Saucery by Rao's Homemade™ pop-up at 579 Broadway on Apin New York City. And we’ve seen a slow and steady backslide. Because the job of art through history is to help the culture move forward. And I think that the onus is on people in the entertainment community to make better content, putting positive, progressive messages into our culture. “Part of what I really believe is that we can course-correct through our entertainment and through our shows. But as a celebrity with a large platform, Philipps takes what she sees as her social responsibility very seriously. *I* would rather not! Are you kidding?!” she asked, shaking her head. And I know lots of people would rather not. So, the whiplash between talking about our girl group and the fun that we have on set and then being faced with these things that have consequences on real people and their lives in our own country … is a lot to hold, for everyone. In Austin, she’d also attended “a panel the ACLU was having for trans families… and specifically trans kids and their parents, to offer them support and legal counsel. Florida’s controversial “Parental Rights in Education” bill, which was dubbed the “ Don’t Say Gay” bill by its opponents, had just been signed into law, and more than a dozen states were already proposing similar legislation. “I find myself increasingly having a kind of whiplash,” Philipps said about the cognitive dissonance of all she’d packed into the trip. Philipps had recently traveled to Austin for South by Southwest to promote the upcoming season of her hit Peacock show “Girls5eva,” but also used her time there to visit one of the last abortion clinics in Texas, a cause she is passionate about. It’s good to be able to have different ways of expression and monetizing your creativity.” She mentioned her podcast as an example of an unexpected significant revenue stream in recent years, despite confessing that she herself is not much of a podcast listener. Things have shifted, and I think that having different facets of talents and things that interest you, especially as a woman, is now beneficial to you in your career.
But also that was the message I was being given by the industry. “Early on I thought that in order to find success I needed to be a certain thing and basically only one of those things,” Philipps said, “sort of at the expense of other parts of myself.
Reasoning that noodles and booze are always conducive to good conversations, I asked Philipps about how her activism has informed her sense of self. The non-crunchy parts of the Bloody helped me regain my composure. “What ‘Saucery’ is this,” I joked, regretting it immediately. I plucked an air-fried piece of bowtie pasta off the top of my “Busy’s Bloody Mary,” where it had been perched at a jaunty angle. Beds of herbs helped set the scene alongside suspiciously perfect tomato vines snaking towards the ceiling, from which dried sausages dangled. Philipps (dressed to kill, naturally, by her long-time stylist Karla Welch) was at “ The Saucery” to help spread the word about Rao’s new charity partnership with Jersey Cares, a local nonprofit. On a recent spring evening, I met her at a pop-up event for Rao’s Homemade in New York City. And these days in particular, as she devotes more of her time to abortion access and transgender rights activism, Philipps is not so easy to put in a box. She’s also hosted her own talk show and podcast and written a New York Times bestselling memoir. Busy Philipps is a former teen star who’s navigated a successful Hollywood career in the nearly 25 years since she got her start.