Obsession star Inde Navarrette has revealed she didn’t secure any acting roles for a year and a half after making the horror hit.
The actor played Nikki, a woman who is made to fall in love with a coworker after he makes a wish that has deadly consequences. The film has become one of the breakout successes of the year, thrusting her into the limelight, but in a new interview with Complex she said that work was hard to come by in the time between the film’s wrapping and release.
“I didn’t work for a year and a half after Obsession” she said. “I was auditioning, I was doing everything, just nothing was sticking. I wanted to pay rent and I wanted to do things. So I was walking dogs, I was streaming, doing everything I could.”
Elsewhere in the interview, she recalled the difficult road to getting the part. “The audition process for Obsession was so crazy,” she said. “I sent in a tape, they liked it, I went in for a Zoom read, it was awful. Because I felt like I knew where I wanted to take it but my body just wasn’t reacting. I think I was in a space personally where I was so shut off from my own emotions, and with Nikki, you need all of them.”
“Then you have the opportunity for the chemistry read, which was the third and final thing,” she continued. “I was like ‘If I have this opportunity, I’m doing everything that I possibly can,’ then I left feeling proud that I did it, and then I felt even more excited when I got the phone call that I got it.”
Following her success, Navarrette’s old livestreams have been discovered by new fans, who have flocked to old videos of her playing the game The Last Of Us. Elsewhere, the director of Obsession, Curry Barker, has said he plans to adapt his YouTube shorts into feature films in the future.