“It’s my dream”: the 1981 album that became Odessa A’zion’s bucket list moment
You can probably say without much doubt now that The Rolling Stones must have at one point made a deal with the Devil that allows them not to have to worry about the ageing process the rest of us mortals have to put up with.
Keith Richards is still going on world tours defies all logic, and now their music videos, like the one starring Odessa A’zion, make it even more annoying because they’re all back in their 20s again.
A’zion has had a hell of a year, not just dancing about the place next to a deepfaked Mick Jagger, but scooping award nominations thanks to her role in Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme, starring in Rachel Sennot’s ‘lessons in eye-rolling’ series I Love LA and appearing alongside a load of other ‘so hot right now’ celebs in Madonna’s film for her new Confessions II album.
But it sounds like it was doing the clip for the Stones track ‘In the Stars’ from next month’s Foreign Tongues album that got her most excited, as A’zion declared, “Are you kidding me? It’s my dream. The first record that I ever got that I listened to from start to finish was Tattoo You. I’m obsessed with The Rolling Stones. This is in my bucket list for sure.”
You know you’re quite cool when the first album you listened to properly was Tattoo You rather than some girlband/boyband stuff like most people, but then A’zion is the Los Angeles-born daughter of an actor and a film director, so probably had one of those bohemian upbringings where they sit around discussing Nietzsche and wouldn’t dream of eating Sugar Puffs.
Tattoo You was the 1981 album that was actually compiled from studio off-cuts by the Stones, but was also responsible for ‘Start Me Up’, which went on to become one of the band’s defining tunes and a near-constant show opener. Despite being made up of older recordings, some dating back a decade, the album was a huge hit and the last Stones album to top the US Billboard charts.
A’zion, meanwhile, has been acting since about 2018 and won a first major role in the Netflix teen drama Grand Army two years later. She appeared in the reboot of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser a couple of years after that, as well as landing the lead in another horror film, 2022’s The Inhabitant, in which she played a teen who believes she is fated to commit murders due to her being descended from a famous female serial killer.
Although she made four films in 2025, it was certainly Josh Safdie’s table-tennis epic Marty Supreme that put A’zion on the map, as she played Rachel Mizler, the married childhood friend of Chalamet’s Marty Mauser, who is having an affair with him in later life. She earned a host of industry award nominations for her work on the movie, including one for ‘Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role’ at the Actor Awards, formerly the SAG Awards.
After dropping out of an A24 film called Deep Cuts, she now has another season of HBO’s I Love LA on the way, as well as a supernatural drama called Nickels, another drama with Naomi Watts called Mother Courage, and a psychological thriller from Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet, titled Fonda.
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