Buttons inside of a movie clip

Hey I am wondering how , if I have a movie clip and inside of that movie clip I have another movie clip with buttons, do I get those buttons to go to a frame on the previous movie clip I have tried the .root GoToandPlay and specified the frame label but this doesnt seem to work. Let me try to be more clear

main stage > movie clip1 > movie clip2 > buttons

the > indicate that it is inside the previous thing.

I want the buttons in movie clip2 to go to a specific frame on movie clip1. How do I achieve this?

_root means the main timeline. You should use _parent which means "one timeline up" .........

_parent.gotoAndPlay("frameLabelName");

.... or make a absolute path...

_root.movieclip1.gotoAndPlay("frameLabelName");