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Odessa A\u2019zion heard \u2014 and listened. The Marty Supreme <\/em>actress announced that she had dropped out of A24\u2019s forthcoming film Deep Cuts<\/em>, just two days after the studio confirmed that she had joined.<\/p>\n A\u2019zion was set to portray Zoe Gutierrez, a Mexican and Jewish character, in Sean Durkin\u2019s film adaptation of Holly Brickley\u2019s 2025 novel of the same name. A\u2019zion, who is Jewish but not Mexican, received widespread backlash for agreeing to portray a Mexican character.<\/p>\n The I Love L.A. <\/em>actress was met with accusations of whitewashing<\/a> and capitalizing on her alleged racial ambiguity, with one person on X<\/a> writing, \u201csome of y\u2019all defending odessa and i don\u2019t like that that is a white woman PERIOD. stop arguing about technicality of ethnicity and race, she is NOT mexican.\u201d<\/p>\n A\u2019zion addressed the backlash via an Instagram story<\/a> on Wednesday, where she shared a series of text posts. Apparently, A\u2019zion wasn\u2019t aware of Zoe\u2019s identity and agreed with the criticisms upon finding out.<\/p>\n \u201cGuys!! I am with ALL of you and I am NOT doing this movie,\u201d she wrote. \u201cf*** that. I\u2019m OUT.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old actress went on to thank her fans for bringing the casting discrepancy to her attention, then clarified how she became involved in the project in the first place \u2014\u00a0saying she had accepted the role without reading the source material.<\/p>\n \u201cI went in for Percy, but was offered Zoe instead and instantly said yes! I\u2019m so pissed y\u2019all, I hadn\u2019t read the book and should have paid more attention to all aspects of Zoe before accepting,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI\u2019d never take a role from someone else that\u2019s meant to do it. That SHOULD do it! That\u2019s not me. There are a plentitude of people more than capable of playing this role and I am NOT one of them. I can\u2019t wait to see who it ends up being.\u201d<\/p>\n A\u2019zion added, \u201cStill haven\u2019t read the book but the story in the script is focused on Percy and Joe, so of course on my initial read that was my main focus as well. I was happy to be involved as a different role, but I just can not do it knowing more about Zoe now.\u201d<\/p>\n Her decision to step away from the film has garnered mixed reactions online. A\u2019zion\u2019s fans are proud of the actress for clearing the air and \u201cdoing the right thing,\u201d though other social media users are skeptical of her claim that she didn’t know Zoe was Mexican.<\/p>\n \u201cyou all ridiculed odessa immediately when THEY offered the role to her and she hadn\u2019t read the book yet and had gone in for a completely different character. she immediately took accountability and LEFT. something a few other actors yall still praise have never done,\u201d an X user wrote<\/a>,<\/p>\n Another said<\/a>, \u201ci\u2019m glad odessa isn\u2019t doing the movie anymore, but we all know that if she didn\u2019t get the amount of backlash she did, she would\u2019ve done it.\u201d<\/p>\n Other X users are calling out what they see as a double standard, noting that A\u2019zion has been accused of whitewashing, but not Wuthering Heights <\/em>star Jacob Elordi<\/a>. In Emerald Fennell\u2019s film adaptation of the literary classic, Elordi stars as Heathcliff, who is interpreted in the source material as being a person of color. Elordi, a white man, hasn\u2019t received widespread backlash for accepting the role.<\/p>\n \u201ci wish we made the same noise (which we rightfully made when odessa took that woc role) when jacob elordi took heathcliff, men have it so easy sometimes,\u201d one X user wrote<\/a>. Another added<\/a>, \u201ccancelling odessa but not jacob is soooooo peak misogyny.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Odessa A\u2019zion heard \u2014 and listened. 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