If there’s anyone who can match Marty Mauser’s madness and self-focus in Marty Supreme, it’s Marty’s married girlfriend, Rachel Mizler, played by Odessa A’zion. The two have known each other for years and although Marty believes almost only in himself and his goals to be the greatest tennis table player in the world, there is a small space in his narcissistic heart for Rachel. That space is something Rachel will do anything to make bigger as she hustles her way into his life.
Nadine Whitney spoke to Odessa about Rachel and her gung-ho attitude as she goes into battle for Marty and herself.
Nadine Whitney: Odessa, your character Rachel goes all in on Marty, but also, she goes all in on herself, and she stretches her own expectations for the life that she will lead. Can you speak to that?
Odessa A’zion: Yeah. I mean, well, if you look at the movie and the time period that it takes place in [1952] and women, like we all know that back then it was a lot harder for them.
So, I think it was scary for her doing that, but she’s just like she doesn’t give a fuck. You know? Like she doesn’t care about anybody that’s gonna stand in her way. Whether it be Dion (Luke Manly) or her husband Ira (Emory Cohen), or even Marty. Like even though her goal is this family with Marty and having him in her life and not being trapped to the person that she already gave her life away to.
She wants that and she wants that freedom. And Marty is kind of that freedom for her in her eyes, you know? She’s stuck and he is the way out.
I mean, Rachel is such a survivor. And she has a goal just like Marty. She’s after something, and she will stop at nothing to get to it. She is super driven and she kind of succeeded, too.
I relate to Rachel because I think everyone kind of has a goal in their minds for themselves and are dreaming big. Maybe I’m not as loud about it as Marty is. Definitely not as loud about it as Marty is, but I have that feeling in me. If I know this is what I want to do, how do I get there? What do I do to make it happen? How can I push myself or convince the people around me so that I could go on this path that I really care about and want to be on?
