{"id":364834,"date":"2025-12-24T00:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:22:14","slug":"marty-supremes-odessa-azion-on-connecting-with-timothee-chalamet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364834\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Marty Supreme\u2019s Odessa A\u2019zion On Connecting With Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOdessa A\u2019zion has shot to stardom in mere minutes \u2014 or so it seems. Just a few weeks ago, she appeared in Rachel Sennott\u2019s new comedy series, I Love LA, which has already been renewed for a second season. And now, the world is about to see her opposite Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a> in Josh Safdie<\/a>\u2018s much-anticipated A24<\/a> film Marty Supreme.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, where did she come from? When we meet via Zoom, A\u2019zion addresses this right away, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s really funny, because I\u2019m seeing a lot of these things online of people being like, \u2018Odessa A\u2019zion just came out of nowhere and she\u2019s an industry plant.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019ve been acting for 10 years now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVery early roles included an episode of her mom Pamela Adlon\u2019s show Better Things, and in the past few years, A\u2019zion has been in the Dakota Johnson-starrer Am I OK?, the comedy series Ghosts, and this year the films Pools and Until Dawn. It was this last she was shooting in Budapest when she found an old phone booth and used it to record a self-tape audition for Marty Supreme<\/a> \u2014 a scene in which her character, Rachel Mizler, is in a 1950s-era phone booth negotiating with the owner of a dog Marty is holding for ransom (yes, you read that correctly). <\/p>\n

\n\tRachel is crazy in love with Chalamet\u2019s Marty Mauser \u2014 a ping pong king and hustler extraordinaire, loosely based on a real person named Marty Reisman. Ultimately, both Rachel and Marty will reveal a level of determination that leans towards the twisted. Here, A\u2019zion reveals how she persevered through a long period of not booking anything, how a long-ago Euphoria audition led to the role of Rachel and how her acting style blended with Chalamet\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Last time we met it was at a panel onstage at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival and we talked about I Love LA.<\/p>\n

\n\tI think that was my first ever [on-stage Q&A]. That\u2019s not true. I had done it once before, for Pools, but that felt like my first ever panel in front of a big audience like that.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Since then, you\u2019ve been doing a lot of interviews. The last few months must have been very intense in the run-up to the Marty Supreme premiere. How are you coping with it?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt has definitely been crazy. It\u2019s definitely a new thing I\u2019d never experienced before. How am I coping with it? I\u2019m learning the ways. I\u2019m trying to get past anxieties of talking to big groups of people. That\u2019s scary. I have stage fright, so that\u2019s really hard. Which I know maybe just goes away with experience of getting on stage more, but I never wanted to get on stage in front of people because it\u2019s scary as hell. But I\u2019m just excited that people are getting to see the show and the movie and projects that I care so deeply about. So if that means me having to do that, then I\u2019m happy to be a part of it.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Odessa<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tOdessa A\u2019zion in \u2018Marty Supreme\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA24<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Tell me about the process of getting the role of Rachel in Marty Supreme? I know that you sent in some self-tapes you made in a Hungarian phone booth.<\/p>\n

\n\tI feel like for me personally, and when I first started acting and doing my own thing, I feel like I didn\u2019t book anything for a really long time, I don\u2019t know. It took a really long time for me to book something. And it really didn\u2019t happen until I started making my tapes my own and dressing as the character, what I thought the character would look like, versus people telling me, \u201cJust wear neutral colors, go with a blank background.\u201d And when I first started, it was in person too anyway, so it was whatever background they had. But self-tapes, I feel like are so special because you really have an opportunity to make it your own and make it as realistic as you want to make it. And if I didn\u2019t find a phone booth, I was going to find a way to find a phone booth.<\/p>\n

I sent the tape a sh-t-ton of times, a bunch of different tapes over the course of a couple days. And I memorized that faster than I\u2019ve ever memorized anything in my life.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Because the audition was the scene where Rachel\u2019s in the phone booth in the movie\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah. Which I think is way worse in the movie than my audition was. But yeah, it was a tape that had come about. I had met with Josh beforehand and Jennifer [Venditti, casting director] remembered me from my audition for Euphoria years ago and thought that I was right for this role, and was trying to tell Josh that she felt that she found his Rachel. And at first, when I met with him, he thought I was maybe too young and it didn\u2019t go my way. And then a couple months later, it came back around and I was able to send the tape. I sent an improv portion, I sent an interview portion. And I mean, I sent the tape a sh-t-ton of times, a bunch of different tapes over the course of a couple days. And I memorized that faster than I\u2019ve ever memorized anything in my life because I never will do a tape not memorized, like holding the paper. I feel it\u2019s so important to show that you really took time and care about it. But yeah, after that, Jen and Josh Fac-Timed me. Josh was showing me around the stadium because the movie used to have a different ending and they were scouting for the stadium for the ending. And he was like, \u201cThis is where we\u2019re going to shoot this. And this is where we shoot this. And this is Jack Fisk, he\u2019s doing the set design.\u201d I\u2019m [thinking], what the f\u2013k is going on? Did I get the part or are you just like, dangling it? And then he told me that I got the part. It was so crazy.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Did you have the full script? Did you know about the different ending at the time?<\/p>\n

\n\tI had the script with the original ending before it was changed a couple different times, and then a couple things just had to be cut timing-wise in the movie because otherwise it would\u2019ve been an even longer movie. I feel like they got it to a really good time.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Timoth\u00e9e<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tTimoth\u00e9e Chalamet in \u2018Marty Supreme\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA24 \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Did you do chemistry reads with Timoth\u00e9e before you got the role? Obviously your characters have this intense connection.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo, no. Nothing. Personally, I feel like Josh, I think he\u2019s got a really good read on actors \u2014 a really, really good read. And I think he could just tell if someone will work with someone else beforehand. I think if he has an intuition on someone or something, he\u2019s going to go with it, no matter what. Even if maybe they don\u2019t have chemistry in person or something, I think he can see his vision.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: So, then what was your first interaction with Timoth\u00e9e? Did you just go right into shooting?<\/p>\n

\n\tJosh thought that it would be a good idea to have us go and have breakfast together somewhere. Or maybe it was dinner. Me, Josh, and Timmy at this little diner in New York. And so, we just hung there for a little bit, and all talked before we started things. I was so excited to start that movie. That movie just is so special for so many reasons. I was kind of feeling at a time where I know I want to do acting with my life\u2026 I was just talking to my agent and friend a couple days before I got the tape and I\u2019m like, \u201cDude, I love working. I love doing these horror movies and I love doing these Indies.\u201d But I\u2019m just like, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to ever have a career more than this.\u201d And then\u2026 This is the first time I\u2019m in something of this scale and this character. I\u2019ve been thinking about that so much. I feel so lucky that I was able to be a part of it. And I feel like Rachel came at such an important time in my life too, just mentally, because I felt like she came when I really needed her. I don\u2019t know, not to get emotional\u2026 It was just a hard, hard year, a lot of loss, a lot of people lost and you can\u2019t do anything about that. Once people are gone, they\u2019re gone. So this whole thing felt really, really special and kismet and from the angels, kind of. She\u2019s just such a special character to me.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPenn Jillette, Kevin O\u2019Leary, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Odessa A\u2019zion, Tyler, The Creator, Gwyneth Paltrow and Koto Kawaguchi at the \u2018Marty Supreme\u2019 LA Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: What do you think of Rachel? She\u2019s scrappy. She\u2019ll do what it takes to get out of a situation.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe, in a way, feels like a mixture of inner child and chaos and freedom, while also being really, really strong, secure adult. She\u2019s so confident in what she wants and what she believes she deserves for herself. I wish I had that confidence and to defend yourself and stand up for yourself. And I just think she\u2019s just a really layered, really beautiful strong, character\u2026 I just think she\u2019s so stuck in this world. I mean, you look at 1952 and her situation and her husband and being pregnant with the other guy\u2019s baby, but she really wants to be with the other guy, because they\u2019ve loved each other their whole lives. And she\u2019s just so stuck. She\u2019s just restrained by this societal pressure to settle down and get married and do it fast, when she knew that she wanted to be with this other person. And so she takes it into her own hands. She says, \u201cOK, if he doesn\u2019t want to be with me this way, I\u2019m going to show him.\u201d I really, really admire her.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to go home and watch Hitchcock because I know that those are the movies that were going around at that time. And I\u2019m going to chop my hair off for the role and strip the color out to make her feel younger. <\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: I interviewed Timmy for A Complete Unknown last year, and one of the things we talked about was how much he immersed himself in this role for Marty Supreme. Tell me about your impressions of working with him, the way he works, and the way your styles fit together as actors.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, I think in ways we\u2019re very similar and in ways we\u2019re very different. We\u2019re very similar in ways of we just want it to be as authentic as it possibly can be, which means for me, less rehearsal. Let\u2019s just go in and do it and feel it out and feel what comes. And if there\u2019s something that one of us is stuck on, let\u2019s talk about it. We can easily talk about it. There\u2019s not one of us saying, \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u201d It\u2019s fully open, flowy. If one of us feels stuck, we\u2019re there.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut then [we\u2019re] different in the other sense of he really immerses himself in the character in that way \u2014 I don\u2019t really know because I haven\u2019t really talked to him about it, so I cannot speak on his behalf, but from what I\u2019ve witnessed. Versus for me, I immerse myself in the character in just a different way where I\u2019m going to go home and watch Hitchcock because I know that those are the movies that were going around at that time. And I\u2019m going to chop my hair off for the role and strip the color out to make her feel younger. Josh liked my natural color better, and I\u2019m going to make my hair super frizzy so that I\u2019m extra Jewish for the role because that\u2019s what that character was. And I\u2019m going to put the weights on my belly so that I could really feel like I\u2019m pregnant. I\u2019m going to make the playlists so that I have the Rachel playlist of what I think that she was listening to then. And then just a playlist of what I feel about Rachel and Marty\u2019s love. So, I immerse myself in a different way than Timmy immerses himself. I think he needs to be locked into the character in just a different way, but we work with each other really, really well. And I loved working with him and he\u2019s just so incredible. He\u2019s such an amazing actor.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"I<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRachel Sennott and Odessa A\u2019zion in \u2018I Love LA\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHBO<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Do you feel ready for everyone to see the film when it premieres in a couple days?<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know. I\u2019m a little scared. I\u2019m really, really excited for people to see the movie. I\u2019m really excited for people to see the movie because it\u2019s just such an incredible movie, and these filmmakers, they really have a vision. And I\u2019m so grateful to have been a part in it, in even the tiniest way. It happened really fast. I feel like we just finished filming and boom, now it\u2019s coming out.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: And what are you most excited about making Season 2 of I Love LA?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m just excited to go back with all the cast. And the character\u2019s very different for me. We talk different, we walk different. I feel like we look a little different. So that\u2019s always really weird for me, but it\u2019s really fun to do with the cast and to be able to shoot at home because I\u2019m from LA, I live in LA. It\u2019s the best. I\u2019m super excited to go back.<\/p>\n

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