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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 20 august 2018

A focused Mackenzie Phillips takes it one day at a time

By LYNN ELBER been given that’s taking
AP Television Writer you away from a drink or
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mack- a drug, and what are you
enzie Phillips, who’s upend- doing that’s taking you
ing expectations with her back toward one. Are you
portrayal of a brutal inmate helping other people? Be-
on “Orange is the New cause in this whole world of
Black,” deserves another recovery you cannot keep
look off-screen as well. it unless you give it away.
Phillips has battled addic- You can’t like hold your re-
tion and made disturbing covery to yourself.
sexual abuse allegations AP: Do you think your alle-
well before such revela- gations about your father,
tions were common, and which got sharp pushback,
she’s forthright when asked would have been per-
to look back at those dark ceived differently in the
chapters. MeToo era?
But it’s the work that’s Phillips: I think that if ‘High
keeping her busy and ful- on Arrival’ came out now,
filled now — whether act- people would not have
ing or helping people ad- been speculating on
dress addiction at a South- whether I was a liar or not.
ern California treatment This image released by Netflix shows Mackenzie Phillips in a scene from “Orange Is the New I remember watching one
facility — that she’d rather Black.” of those evening maga-
concentrate on. Associated Press zine shows and they actu-
Her personal life also is “fan- dressed during an interview AP: Did you feel removed to get high again. ally had a body language
tastic,” she said, including with The Associated Press. enough from your own AP: How long have you expert who was looking
her relationships with her Remarks have been edited drug use to play an addict- been sober? at clips of me talking on
half-siblings (actress Bijou for clarity and brevity. ed character? Phillips: Well, this is where ‘Oprah’ and seeing wheth-
Phillips and singer Chynna AP: You mentioned viewers Phillips: People said, it gets interesting. I have er or not from my body lan-
Phillips are among them). have been taken aback ‘Weren’t you triggered by come to the conclusion, guage if I was lying. I don’t
Phillips, 58, who gained by how you look playing snorting fake drugs?’ I was throughout many years of think that would be consid-
fame in the 1970s on the sit- Barbara. Any hesitation to like, ‘No, I was absolute- sobriety, that time does ered appropriate today. So
com “One Day at a Time” take the part because of ly filled with the deepest not treat nor does it barely I think it would have been a
but lost the role as fallout ego? gratitude that I don’t live heal this thing. Otherwise very different experience.
from her drug and alcohol Phillips: No, because it’s that way.’ It’s very bleak, I wouldn’t have relapsed But I’m not sure.
use, appears on the Net- a character. And I’m a and there’s nothing to look and gotten arrested al- AP: What else are you up to
flix reboot as leader of a woman of a certain age forward to but the next hit most 10 years ago to the now?
veterans support group. who hasn’t had any plastic for Barb. So when she she’s day. Demi Lovato, bless Phillips: My life is fantas-
On Netflix’s “Orange is the surgery and plans to keep not getting high, she starts her heart, I’m so support- tic. I’ve been in the same
New Black,” Phillips is nearly it that way. Consider this: focusing all that beautiful ive of her, wouldn’t have house for 18 years. I have
unrecognizable as Barba- Had I been Botox’d and energy that you could fo- relapsed after six years if it a 31-year-old son named
ra, whose face shows her nipped and tucked and cus on wellness or helping mattered how long a per- Shane, who is a spectacu-
cruelty and self-destruc- lifted, they never would people on revenge and son was sober. lar human being. I have a
tiveness. have hired me. I’m very resentment. It’s pretty text- AP: So how do you mea- bunch of dogs. I’m in re-
Drugs also are part of the proud of my age because book that energy needs sure where you stand? lationships with my sisters.
character’s life, a real-life I never thought I would live to be focused somewhere Phillips: What you’re do- I mean, it’s an incredible
parallel that Phillips ad- this long. purposeful or you’re going ing in the day that you’ve thing.q

Soviet Invasion occupation of Czechoslo-
vakia. Koudelka’s photos
were first published by me-
Continued from Page 29 too often in our history.”
Unarmed people could dia around the globe in
“No matter who you were, not stop the armies, how- 1969 under the attribution
only one thing mattered: ever, and the country was “P.P.” (Prague photogra-
We were all against them,” subsequently taken over pher) to prevent his perse-
he said. by a hard-line Communist cution by the Communists.
One of his now-iconic pho- regime fully loyal to Mos- Now 80, Koudelka is not
tos shows a man holding cow. ready to retire. He still keeps
his coat wide open in front The occupying troops his camera busy every day.
of an armed soldier stand- stayed for over 20 years Over his long career, he
ing on a Soviet tank, while and withdrew only after took many great photo-
another one captures an the 1989 Velvet Revolu- graphs, including his Gyp-
elderly man trying to hit a tion led by the late Vaclav sy, Exile and Panoramas
tank with a cobblestone. Havel. series that are in the col-
“My photos captured a According to historians, lections of major museums,
moment when we be- 137 people were killed by In this Aug. 10, 2018 photo Josef Koudelka answers questions including the Centre Pom-
haved like a nation,” Warsaw Pact soldiers in in a rare media interview with the Associated Press, at pidou in Paris, the Museum
his retrospective exhibition “Returning” at the Museum of
Koudelka said. 1968 alone, and a total of Decorative Arts in Prague, Czech Republic. of Modern Art in New York
“And that didn’t happen over 400 died during the Associated Press and the J. Paul Getty Mu-
seum in Los Angeles.q