Marty Supreme and I Love LA breakout star Odessa A’zion is laying those wig allegations to rest. Speaking on the red carpet at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards, the actor addressed the heightened online discourse regarding her hair. Is it extensions? A wig? A perm? God’s gift?
For the starry night (and start of awards season), A’zion stepped out in a custom silver embellished Ott Dubai gown, with a high neck and swishy cut-out cape sleeves. Her raven-dark hair was coiffed in her now-signature, thick and curly lengths, corkscrew curls unspooling in every direction for extra drama and dimension.
The last few months have proved star-defining for A’zion, with turns in both Rachel Sennot’s I Love LA as the chaotic influencer Talulah and as Rachel Mizler opposite Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme. For both parts, A’zion’s undulating curls have caught the internet’s fixation. Comparisons have been made to images of A’zion as a teenager, where her hair was appeared finer and relaxed.
When Deadline asked her about the internet’s current obsession as to whether she’s with or without wig, the star replied, “I’ve been told about that. There’s a whole debate, ‘Is it a wig? Is it not?’ I guess we’ll never know. No…I’m kidding.”
“The gag is,” A’zion continued, “the LA premiere [of Marty Supreme] was a wig, and [for] the New York premiere, it took me five hours to do my hair, and everyone thinks it’s a wig.”
She continued: “You think I can afford a wig like that and wear it all the time? Those are so expensive. I’ve heard wigs can go up to like twenty-, or thirty-thousand dollars. Are you fucking kidding me? I don’t even have a hair, makeup, or stylist because I’m trying to save my money. Maybe one day.”
As shown below, when she did actually wear a wig, A’zion wore a sharp Marc Jacobs suit sans shirt, with the wig styled swept over to the side, curls much looser and sleek. Its length, too, was much shorter, at her clavicles. It felt much more ’50s in vibe, à la Marty Supreme.
In Hollywood and beyond in the world of celebritydom, wearing a wig is pretty standard. For actors, it offers a way to switch up their look without infringing on any contractual obligations for starring in a movie (maybe their character is scripted to have a bob, but they’re feeling in their Rapunzel-long tresses) or a quick vibe shift without spending hours in the stylist chair. Models will often don a wig for runways and shoots to keep themselves a blank canvas for work. And Kylie Jenner, for one, switches out her rainbow collection of wigs, while sister Kim has a penchant for an extra-long ponytail one minute, and an Edna Mode crop the next.
And as A’zion makes clear, not everyone can afford to have a full glam team for a grueling press tour like that of Marty Supreme and the awards ceremony circuit. A wig is a pretty good, cost-effective beauty hack. And anyone who has to go through a curly-hair routine on the regular knows the effort A’zion must go into to keep her natural hair so full-bodied.
Hair no longer full of secrets, Odessa A’zion’s natural, bombastic curls stay winning.
