Odessa A’zion Drops Out of ‘Deep Cuts’ After Casting Controversy

When you have been getting all pumped about seeing Odessa A’zion within the upcoming romance drama flick “Deep Cuts,” this could be a bummer — she’s dropped out of the film’s solid.

The actress defined her reasoning on her Instagram Story on Wednesday night time … and admitted she did not notice the character she was set to play, Zoe, was of Mexican and Jewish heritage within the 2025 novel the upcoming A24 film is predicated on.

Odessa’s casting was introduced Monday, and followers of the guide began posting on-line about how her personal background — she’s Jewish, however doesn’t have Mexican roots — does not match with the character, in line with Selection.

She wrote … “I went in for Percy, however was supplied Zoe as an alternative and immediately mentioned sure! I’m so pissed y’all, I hadn’t learn the guide and may have paid consideration to all points of Zoe earlier than accepting…and now that I do know what I do know? F*** that. I’m out!”

Odessa added there’s “a plentitude of individuals greater than able to enjoying this function and I’m not considered one of them.”

In case you have not learn the guide … Zoe’s an in depth buddy of music critic Percy — who’s set to be performed by Cailee Spaeny — and he or she’s additionally the ex-girlfriend of Percy’s love curiosity Joe, who’ll be portrayed by Drew Starkey. The guide is a couple of years-long relationship between a music critic and an aspiring songwriter.

Whereas Odessa mentioned she had been trying ahead to attending to work with the challenge’s solid and crew, she could not do it in good conscience … and was “so so sorry that this occurred.”