Trouble accessing newly created MC

Hi everybody, this is my first post here so I’ll try to be brief

I created a MC with a simple createMovieClip, in which I load a movie. This works.

[AS]
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“pmpPlay”, 2);
loadmovie(“play.jpg”, pmpPlay);
pmpPlay._x = “20”;
pmpPlay._y = “20”;
pmpPlay._alpha = “100”;
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Now when I try to access it’s onMouseDown event, nothing is triggered.

[AS]
_root.pmpPlay.onMouseDown = function () {
trace(“pmpplay click”);
}
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Any idea ? I guess it’s all about the level on the createEmptyMovie function but I’m not sure.

Thanks in advance !