Control a MC onstage from within another MC?

[Dark Otaku]

I want to control (i.e. play) a movieclip that's located on the stage from within another movieclip. The structure is basically like this...

Stage

movieclip (mc)

stop script

animation

movieclip (bt2)

actionscript layer (code below)

button (bt)

the code within bt2 is:

bt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onPlayClick);
function onPlayClick(event:MouseEvent):void 
{_root.mc.play();}

Obviously, it's not working, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Can anyone help?

[decoRobot]

as2?

try replacing CLICK with onRelease

[Dark Otaku]

no, as3