A self-tape audition landed Odessa A'zion 'Marty Supreme.' She's still pinching herself

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Hall of Fame baseball player Rickey Henderson once declared, “If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.” Odessa A’zion isn’t the biggest sports fan, but she can relate.“I love having a super dirty script,” she enthuses late one afternoon in early November at a Mid City cafe.“The dirtier the script, the more loved it is.” The 25-year-old actress has been working for about a decade in horror movies, indie comedies and crime thrillers.

But this fall, she is breaking through in a new way thanks to “Marty Supreme,” the highly-anticipated new film from “Uncut Gems” co-director Josh Safdie.In this early-1950s epic, A’zion plays Rachel, a married pet-store employee having an affair with her lifelong best friend and unscrupulous ping-pong champion Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet).But Rachel is no shrinking violet, holding her own against lowlifes and schemers while navigating the movie’s unexpected turns, shocking violence and wrenching tension.

A’zion saves all her scripts, but the “Marty Supreme” one is especially meaningful to her.“I call myself a memory hoarder, so the dirt and buildup on the script are memories,” she explains.“‘Oh, there’s a fingerprint on this page with blood on it — I got [fake] blood on my hand and needed to check something on my script.

This [page] corner was ripped off because I had to put my gum in it before we started filming.’ I like seeing the work that was put into it.”“Marty Supreme” opens on Christmas, but is already generating substantial Oscar buzz.In the meantime, A’zion is also earning raves for her performance as Tallulah, the hopelessly shallow, endlessly entertaining influencer on Rachel Sennott’s zeitgeist-y HBO series, “I Love L.A.” But unlike these two strong-willed, aggressive characters, A’zion in person exudes the warm, infectious ener...