The Moment New Hollywood It Girl Odessa A'zion Knew Marty Supreme Was A Big Deal

Odessa A'zion has spent the last few years as a rising star – for example, playing the lead role in 2022’s Hellraiser and having a regular guest role on Ghosts – but she really popped at the end of 2025. In addition to having a role on the new HBO series I Love LA, she has earned rave reviews for her turn in writer/director Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme. The last few weeks have been an exciting whirlwind for the actress, but it wasn’t really until a special encounter earlier this month at the Golden Globes did she realize the immensity of what is presently happening in her life.

While A’zion didn’t see her acclaimed turn in Marty Supreme result in a 2026 Academy Award nomination, she has gotten a consolation prize of sorts in the form of a profile in The Hollywood Reporter. The piece digs into the full span of her career to this point and the moment she is presently having, but one of the best tidbits is her quote about the moment when she recognized the significance of her recent success. She told the reporter,

This is universally relatable, right? Steven Spielberg is renowned the world over as one of the greatest filmmakers to ever touch a camera, and if happen you find yourself in a room with him, it instantly inspires the internal debate of, “Do I go over there and say hi to him? Do I tell him what his work has meant to me?” But Odessa A’zion didn’t have that because he was the one approaching and asking if it was okay to talk to her. Epic.

As for the rest of the Golden Globes 2026 ceremony, Team Marty Supreme missed out on the “Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy” and “Best Screenplay” prizes, but the film didn’t walk away from the event empty handed, as Timothée Chalamet won the award for “Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy” (and he has some pretty good odds on him to win the correlating prize at the Oscars in March).

In Marty Supreme, A'zion plays Rachel Mizler, a married childhood friend of Chalamet’s Marty Mauser who gets knocked up by the protagonist in the movie’s opening scene. She doesn’t get to tell him about the baby until he returns to New York months later, and efforts to try and help her get thrown in the mix of major issues that he has to deal with while he desperately tries to find a way to raise enough money to fly to Tokyo and participate in the next table tennis world championship. It’s a great character with some big twists and drama to play with, and the actress is phenomenal in her part.

A'zion clearly has a big future ahead of her – though that future won’t include an adaptation of author Holly Brickley’s novel Deep Cuts, as she dropped out of the film after realizing that the role should go to an actress of Mexican descent. Her upcoming slate includes a voice role in the animated Stranger Things: Tales from '85 and the original horror film For The Night from first-time writer/director James Kimball.