On Wednesday morning, Marty Supreme‘s Odessa A’zion awoke to the news she had received an Actors Award nomination — a turn of events that seemed to actually shock her.
“What the hell?” she told Deadline shortly after the announcement. “My brain is still loading because I just woke up.” She also said that her Marty co-star Timothée Chalamet had already called to congratulate her. “I just talked to Timothée for a second and it’s crazy. I don’t even know what to say or think,” she said. “He was just like, ‘Congratulations. We did it.’ Just a bunch of nice things, and it’s so exciting to be nominated together.”
In Josh Safdie‘s film Marty Supreme, A’zion plays Rachel Mizler, on-off lover of Timothée Chalamet’s ping-pong champion character Marty Mauser.
Odessa A’zion at the “Marty Supreme” Los Angeles Premiere
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A’zion, who also recently appeared in Season 1 of Rachel Sennott’s TV comedy I Love LA, has become something of a phenomenon already. So much so, that there is much online chatter about her hair. In an interview she gave to Deadline on the Critics Choice red carpet this past Sunday she addressed the chatter about whether or not her hair was a wig. “There’s a whole debate, ‘Is it a wig? Is it not?’ I guess we’ll never know. No…I’m kidding,” she’d said.
That interview went viral. At the time of writing, it had reached 10.8M views on Deadline’s X account and 5.5M on Deadline’s TikTok.
On Wednesday, in response to that viral craziness, A’zion said, “I didn’t know that there was such a stigma behind wigs in particular.”
Timothée Chalamet and Odessa A’zion at the ‘Marty Supreme’ premiere in New York.
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In the original interview, she had said that as an up-and-coming actor who just started landing significant roles, she was trying to save her money and could not afford to buy her own high-end wig. Online commenters lambasted her about this claim. But on Wednesday A’zion stood by what she said: “I talked about money, but then I don’t think that people realize that for a large majority of your career, you’re not making a lot of money. It’s not going too crazy, but knock on wood, there will be some changes. But that’s just what I meant when I said I’m trying to save my funds.”
She also reiterated that her hair at the Marty premiere in LA was a wig, and that for the New York premiere it was natural. “The New York [premiere] was my hair that I took literally five hours to do,” she said. “Everyone thought it was a wig. And I’m like, ‘Guys, can I get a little credit here?’ I didn’t just put this on. This took me a hot minute.”
Timothée Chalamet, Josh Safdie and Odessa A’zion At the 2026 Critics Choice Awards.
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Asked whether she’s been inundated with offers for great roles in the wake of this new success, A’zion said, “You know what? I have not been getting a ton of offers. I think a big part of it too is honestly, there’s not a whole lot of leading or supporting juicy roles for women still — to be real.”
Her dream would be to continue working on roles like her Marty Supreme character. “I really, really like playing roles like Rachel. She was such a dream role. I just thought she was so smart and calculated, and then she got to erupt… I like screaming, I like crying, I like going through real f–ked up shit. That’s what’s fun to me. I don’t like playing characters that are just the one who steers the story and is kind of the straight man of it. It’s just a little boring to me. I would rather play a b-line character that’s barely in the movie, that has a f–king awesome plotline and is doing crazy s–t.”
Speaking of high-drama characters, A’zion says she also loves playing her “crazy girl” character of Talluluah in I Love LA. As for when Season 2 will begin shooting, she says, “I think late summer is what I’ve been told.”