Several years ago, Odessa A’zion had a promising audition to join the cast of HBO’s Euphoria. A’zion, only a teenager at the time, earned a callback and a meeting with creator Sam Levinson. But the COVID pandemic abruptly halted production, and A’zion never heard from the Euphoria team again. A few months and several auditions and Zoom meetings later, A’zion got a FaceTime from Safdie. “She’s really clean — she’s very OCD about it.”Despite growing up the way she did, A’zion says she didn’t truly understand the way the industry worked until this year.