"[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."
""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."
A24 released Odessa A'zion's self-tape audition for the role of Rachel in Marty Supreme. The audition was recorded late at night in Budapest in a phone booth with help from co-star Belmont Cameli, despite a nearby woman asking for quiet. The self-tape process allowed full creative control and encouraged risk-taking to stand out. Casting director Jennifer Venditti worked collaboratively with A'zion, exchanging notes and resubmissions to persuade director Josh Safdie, who initially worried A'zion might be too young. Venditti called the completed tape cinematic and expressed a wish for DVD extras; social media now provides access to the audition.
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