Odessa A’zion Just Can’t Fake It |
After Odessa A’zion auditioned for I Love LA and met with Josh Safdie over Zoom for Marty Supreme, she was initially told she’d lost both parts. “I was like, Well, I’ll just go fuck myself,” the actor says. Then her fortunes changed—much like real-life Ping-Pong star Marty Reisman, who inspired Timothée Chalamet’s character in the film. A’zion plays Rachel, his complicated love interest. The character is a dreamer, and A’zion is too: “She’s got a Fievel Mousekewitz quality,” says Safdie, comparing the actor to the adorable hero of the 1986 animated film An American Tail. “She feels independent, but also dead set on finding a way home.” VF’s Savannah Walsh speaks with the 25-year-old ahead of the biggest fall of her career—in which her newest projects turn A’zion into the face of a generation.
Elsewhere in HWD, Rebecca Ford speaks with Luca Guadagnino about the political atmosphere of his recent film After the Hunt; Victoria Beckham is done proving herself in the fashion industry; Rosemary Counter breaks down Mary Shelley’s overlapping and unconventional romances; and Diane Keaton’s family reveals the late actor’s cause of death. |
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