If you watch Odessa A’zion’s audition for Marty Supreme, you’ll see why she just got nominated for an Actor’s Award. A24 just shared A’zion’s self-tape audition for Rachel, the same audition where a woman in Budapest told her to be quiet because she was recording it outside late at night. She recruited the help of her Until Dawn co-star, Belmont Cameli, who helped her record the self-tape in a phone booth in the city, even if it was kind of annoying for those trying to get some sleep. “[The scene is] a lot calmer in the movie than my audition was,” she told the Los Angeles Times in November 2025. “But I was so happy that I got a self-tape versus an in-person thing. You can make it entirely your own — you can really make it look like how you feel like it would look. If you want somebody to pay attention to your tape, make sure that you stand out and take a risk.”
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Marty Supreme casting director Jennifer Venditti remembered seeing the self-tape unfold, as it was a last ditch effort for her to get Josh Safdie to see A’zion as Rachel — he loved her initial audition but thought she might be too young for the part. “Odessa would film, and then she’d send it to me, and then I would give her notes, and then they’d go back again,” Venditti told Gold Derby. “We were like a team — me, her, Belmont. Then she finally sent it one day, and it was like, ‘Oh my!’ I wish there were DVD extras, because her audition tape is so cinematic.” At least now, we have social media for our DVD extras. But whenever Marty Supreme comes on physical media, it should have those, too.
