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'Obsession' has made Inde Navarrette one of this year's most talked-about actresses
Nobody in Hollywood is having a better year that Inde Navarrette, who went from being a relatively unknown TV perforer to one of the most talked about actresses in the world. Navarrette stars in Obsession, which has made over $300 million at the box office against just a $750,000 budget.
Not only has Obsession become a history success, but Inde Navarrette herself — similar to Amy Madigan in last year’s Weapons, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress — is getting calls to be nominated for an Oscar.
Actress Inde Navarrette says she paid rent after filming Obsession by streaming video games and walking dogs
Regardless if she’s nominated for an Oscar or not, Navarrette’s career will never be the same and looks set to explode. It wasn’t always like that for the 25-year-old, though, as she recently revealed she wasn’t able to a land an audition for a year-and-a-half after wrapping production on Obsession in 2024.
To make ends-meet during that time, Navarrette told Complex that she walked dogs and streamed video games on a PC that she built herself.
“I didn’t work for a year-and-a-half after Obsession came out. I was auditioning, I was doing everything… just nothing was sticking. And I wanted to pay rent and I wanted to do things — I was walking dogs, I was streaming. Doing everything I could to pay rent,” Navarrette said.
Navarrette’s YouTube account remains active and currently has over 135,000 subscribers. Her account features just four videos but nearly 12 hours of content spread across play-through videos of The Last of Us: Part 2 and Outlast.
Her streaming content wasn’t limited to those two games, however, as videos of Navarrette being a beast at Call of Duty have since surfaced and gone viral.
Following the breakout success of Obsession, it’s been reported that Navarrette is circling a role in A24’s Goblin, which will be directed by David Mikalson. Co-starring Skyler Gisondo and a voice role from Kenneth Branagh, Goblin is described as being an “R-rated puppet film.”