The movie Odessa A’zion would have loved to be in: “I wish I was in it”
Marty Supreme may end up winning Timothée Chalamet his first Academy Award for ‘Best Actor’, but it was his co-star Odessa A’zion who was the film’s scene-stealer as Rachel Mizler, and is about to take Hollywood by storm.
The film, as is the case with many of Josh Safdie’s projects, has an ensemble that includes many amateur actors, and A’zion was an up-and-coming star who got a massive boost to her career by playing the long-suffering love interest to Chalamet’s anti-hero, Marty Mauser. It’s the type of fearless performance that doesn’t come around that often, and signifies someone who is likely to be in the industry for quite some time.
A’zion has also made it clear that she’s a massive cinephile with a deep knowledge of contemporary and classic cinema, and while being in Marty may help her gain more opportunities in the industry, she revealed that there’s another 2025 film that she wishes she’d had the chance to appear in.
“Anything that I watch makes me want to go and make more movies,” she expressed to Harper’s Bazaar, “Any movie that I watch, I’m like, ‘Fuck, that’s a good movie. I wish I was involved somehow’. I saw Weapons, and all I could think was, ‘I wish I was in it’. I feel like any artist, if you’re a creative, anything inspires you.”
Weapons was one of the biggest surprise hits of 2025, and not one that many would have anticipated being one of the year’s best films. Although director Zach Creggar made an impressive first feature with Barbarian, Weapons was a step up in nearly every way, with its clever non-linear storytelling, shocking imagery, clever twists, and dark humour, solidifying itself as a future horror classic, proving once again that the genre is best experienced on the big screen.
It’s not often that horror films become award season contenders, as voting bodies tend to look the other way when it comes to the genre, but Weapons gained major traction with an Academy Award nomination for Amy Madigan’s performance, and even snuck onto the PGA’s list of the year’s ‘Best Picture’ nominees.
This may be because of the ensemble as beyond the jump scares, it tells a very relatable story about a terrified American community torn apart by anxiety and remorse, involving some of the industry’s finest actors.
It’s rare that a horror film takes so much time establishing its characters and building empathy for them, but it only makes the shift towards the supernatural more effective. It’s not entirely clear what role A’zion may have wanted, though, as she may have been a bit too young to play alcoholic school teacher Justine Gandy, portrayed by Julia Garner, or might have had a shot at the role of Austin Abrams’ James, had the gender been reversed. Of course, A’zion may have just been expressing general support for the film and what it represents for the industry moving forward.
2025 was a year in which original films proved that they had the power to forge connections with audiences, for in addition to Marty Supreme and Weapons, other successes included Sinners, Materialists, The Secret Agent, and Sorry Baby. Given that Creggar has now proven himself as a director who can attract A-list talent for his work, A’zion’s potential to work with him has just significantly increased.
