Odessa A'zion just wants to be 'messy' in 'Marty Supreme,' 'I Love LA'
- - Odessa A'zion just wants to be 'messy' in 'Marty Supreme,' 'I Love LA'
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAYJanuary 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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NEW YORK – Odessa A’zion can’t tell if she’s being punked.
The effervescent up-and-comer is holed up in the Woolworth mansion doing interviews for “Marty Supreme” (in theaters now), which was partially filmed inside the seven-story, $38 million estate. The historic Upper East Side townhouse is a living art museum, brimming with lofty oil paintings, gleaming marble floors and a stained-glass skylight.
“Somebody told me this used to be Marie Antoinette’s bed, but I’m not sure if they were just making that up,” A’zion says with a raised eyebrow as she curls up on a nearby couch. “This whole place is insane.”
The insanity is seemingly never-ending for A’zion, 25, who in the past two months has catapulted into the spotlight thanks to her dual roles in “Marty Supreme” and HBO’s hit sitcom “I Love LA,” which just finished its first season.
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Before "Marty Supreme," Odessa A'zion appeared in Netflix's "Grand Army," "Until Dawn" and "Am I OK?"
“It’s definitely been a lot, but I’ve been working for so long,” says A’zion, who made her film debut in 2011’s “Conception” alongside her mother, actress and writer Pamela Adlon. “A lot of the movies that I’ve done came out either during COVID or the (Hollywood) strikes, so I wasn’t able to do any press for them. It’s crazy − this is all very new for me.”
In “Marty Supreme,” the curly-haired, raspy-voiced actress plays Rachel, a pet shop clerk who gets pregnant by her longtime friend, the flaky Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet).
At first blush, Rachel appears to be a mousy wallflower irritated by Marty’s fast-cash gambits. But in one gasp-inducing sequence (spoiler alert!), the audience discovers that the tearstained Rachel has been playing him at his own game and is similarly skilled in the art of deception.
“When does an actor ever get to have seven emotional turns in one scene?” A’zion marvels. “You’re angry, you’re lying, you’re fake-crying, you’re problem-solving – and then it turns out you’ve actually been scheming this whole time. It was the most satisfying scene.”
Rachel (Odessa A'zion) is not all that she appears to be in "Marty Supreme."
On the surface, Rachel is night and day from A’zion’s TV counterpart Tallulah, the hard-partying influencer she portrays on “I Love LA.” Rachel Sennott created the comedy and costars as her estranged best friend, Maia, who tries to leverage Tallulah’s social media infamy into a legitimate career.
“Tallulah was really hard because she’s so different from me, but I connect to both characters,” A’zion says. “What I love is that they are super-strong and take no bull----. Sure, Tallulah may seem more airhead-y, but she’s just as calculated as Rachel in ‘Marty Supreme’ is.”
A’zion says she has always gravitated toward the dark and unusual: Her favorite movies are “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Harold and Maude.” (She named her pet tortoises after the latter.) She was a dramatic kid with a lot of emotions, but she always resisted the idea of therapy.
“It's not for me,” A’zion says wryly. “If someone's being paid to listen to me, they’ve got their own problems going on!” Rather, acting allows her “to access all the emotions you might suppress in real life, and let it out in a way that is safe and welcome. That’s why it’s such a cool, beautiful thing.”
Tallulah (Odessa A'zion, left) hustles to make it in Hollywood with the help of talent manager Maia (Rachel Sennott) in "I Love LA."
She says her mother and her father, writer and producer Felix Adlon, were “somewhat” reluctant about her pursuing a career in entertainment, knowing what the industry entails. And for a while, A’zion struggled to get work as she dutifully sent out scores of self-taped auditions.
“My team was always like: ‘Wear neutral colors and do it against a white wall! They just want to focus on the acting!’ ” A’zion recalls. “F--- that! If the scene is in a bed, do it in bed. If it’s in a bathtub, do it in the bathtub. As soon as I started taking more risks, then more stuff started happening.”
She vividly remembers taping her “Marty Supreme” audition in a phone booth “with a really weird angle. It wasn’t pretty: It was dirty and messy and felt really right for the character.”
Creator, writer, director and actress Rachel Sennott attends the premiere of HBO's "I Love LA" at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2025. The show, created by and starring Sennott, will premiere on HBO Nov. 2.
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Creator, writer, director and actress Rachel Sennott attends the premiere of HBO's "I Love LA" at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2025. The show, created by and starring Sennott, will premiere on HBO Nov. 2.
A’zion is still adjusting to her blossoming fame. She used to be uncomfortable with interviews, but “I’m hopefully getting better at them. It definitely feels like ‘Groundhog Day.’ I don’t want to sound like a broken record!”
She also once hated watching her own performances: “I was just like, ‘Girl, you suck!’ But it’s important for me to learn from that. The only person that can really teach me what works and what doesn’t is myself.”
Next up, she voices a new character in Netflix’s “Stranger Things” animated spinoff “Tales from ’85,” and she’s impatient to start production on “I Love LA” Season 2.
“I hope that Tallulah gets into some more messy s--- because that’s my favorite type of thing to do,” A’zion says impishly. “I’m just excited to go back and work with everyone again. I feel very, very lucky.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 'Marty Supreme' star Odessa A'zion recalls her 'dirty' audition
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