{"id":543348,"date":"2026-03-16T04:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543348\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:42:15","slug":"odessa-azion-bombed-little-mermaid-audition-i-forgot-the-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543348\/","title":{"rendered":"Odessa A’Zion Bombed ‘Little Mermaid’ Audition: ‘I Forgot the Lyrics’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBefore Odessa A\u2019Zion stepped into the role of Rachel Mizler for \u201cMarty Supreme<\/a>,\u201d she was almost Ariel in the 2023 live-action \u201cThe Little Mermaid<\/a>.\u201d There was just one problem: She flubbed her audition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking with CNN and Variety on the red carpet for the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, A\u2019Zion recounted the \u201creally embarrassing\u201d experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI sang \u2018Part of Your World.\u2019 I was so nervous that I forgot the lyrics to \u2018Part of Your World\u2019 while I was singing it,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then, because I was doing it in Ariel\u2019s voice \u2014 like a princess voice \u2014\u00a0 they\u2019re like, \u2018Just do it normal.\u2019 [And] I couldn\u2019t do it normal. I\u2019d memorized it in that voice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI left like \u2018That was the most embarrassing thing on planet Earth,\u2019 and didn\u2019t hear back, didn\u2019t get a call back,\u201d A\u2019Zion continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the film directed by Rob Marshall, the role ultimately went to singer, actress and songwriter Halle Bailey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter an extensive search, it was abundantly clear that Halle possesses that rare combination of spirit, heart, youth, innocence, and substance \u2014 plus a glorious singing voice \u2014 all intrinsic qualities necessary to play this iconic role,\u201d Marshall said in a statement at the time of the casting.<\/p>\n

\n\tLooking back on it, missing out on the role of the red-headed mermaid didn\u2019t deter A\u2019Zion\u2019s career at all; this year, she\u2019s at the Oscars with \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d which nabbed nine nominations, including Best Picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor her role as Mizler, Marty Mauser\u2019s (played by Timothee Chalamet) love interest and childhood friend, A\u2019Zion was nominated for both an Actor Award and a BAFTA Award in supporting categories.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA\u2019Zion also stars as influencer Tallulah Stiel in Rachel Sennott\u2019s HBO show, \u201cI Love LA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Odessa A\u2019Zion stepped into the role of Rachel Mizler for \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d she was almost Ariel in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,52396,344,231017,269218],"class_list":["post-543348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-marty-supreme","tag-movies","tag-odessa-azion","tag-the-little-mermaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}