{"id":4461,"date":"2026-06-03T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/odessa-azion-wants-to-play-janis-joplin-for-next-role\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:22:59","slug":"odessa-azion-wants-to-play-janis-joplin-for-next-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/odessa-azion-wants-to-play-janis-joplin-for-next-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Odessa A&#8217;zion wants to play Janis Joplin for next role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2Fazion-59.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Odessa A\u2019zion wants to give one specific musician a piece of her heart by playing her on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about her tattoo collection, A\u2019zion mentioned she had a tattoo of the \u201cMe and Bobby McGee\u201d singer on her arm.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Odessa A\u2019zion spoke to Page Six at the 2026 Gotham TV Awards Monday (as pictured above). <span class=\"credit\">Page Six<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The actress told Page Six her \u201cdream\u201d is to play Janis Joplin (seen here performing in 1969) in a biopic. <span class=\"credit\">Redferns<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A\u2019zion, 25, revealed it\u2019s her \u201cdream\u201d to portray the fiery blues singer, who died of a heroin overdose at age 27 in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The actress agreed she\u2019s had quite a few whirlwind months after appearing in the critically acclaimed HBO series \u201cI Love LA\u201d and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/01\/entertainment\/marty-supreme-review-timothee-chalamet-wins-in-the-best-movie-of-the-year\/\">Oscar-nominated flick \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d<\/a> both released in late 2025.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>A\u2019zion (photographed here arriving at the 2026 Gotham TV Awards) even has a tattoo of the late singer on her arm. <span class=\"credit\">Ouzounova \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Joplin (photographed above circa 1967-1968) died of a heroin overdose in 1970. <span class=\"credit\">Fantality Corporation\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A\u2019zion, daughter of actress Pamela Adlon, called it \u201cnuts to have a show and then a movie come back to back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt very much like, \u2018OK, here we go!&#8217;\u201d she reflected. \u201cBut it was so cool how different they were; they were just so different, a comedy and then a super different drama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A\u2019zion was on the red carpet with her \u201cI Love LA\u201d costar, Rachel Sennott, who used to live in New York before moving to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>A\u2019zion was at the Gotham Awards for \u201cI Love LA,\u201d in which she co-stars with Rachel Sennott. (The co-stars are pictured in a still from the show here.) <span class=\"credit\">HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The actress also appeared in the Oscar-nominated \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d last year (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">A24<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sennott admitted she wasn\u2019t prepared for the show she created, wrote and starred in to blow up the way it did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just focused on the experience of making it,\u201d she shared. \u201cI think the cast [felt] like lightning in a bottle and that felt really special to me, but watching people love the show and talk about it and make it their own was really special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cShiva Baby\u201d star admitted what she misses most since moving across the country are her friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep running into my best friends who live here, and that\u2019s what I miss the most,\u201d she said of returning to the Big Apple for the Gotham Television Awards.<\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, \u201cI Love LA\u201d won the award for Breakthrough Comedy Series.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/03\/celebrity-news\/odessa-azion-wants-to-play-janis-joplin-for-next-role\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odessa A\u2019zion wants to give one specific musician a piece of her heart by playing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/azion-59.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}