Inde Navarrette is fielding calls from some of Hollywood’s biggest names, and she’s not ruling anything out. The 25-year-old breakout star of “Obsession” has reportedly met with Jake Schreier, the director tapped to lead Marvel’s upcoming “X-Men” reboot, and separately with Michael Mann, who is currently casting “Heat 2,” his long-awaited sequel to the 1995 crime classic.
Asked in a recent interview whether she’d take a Marvel role, Navarrette didn’t hesitate. She also named Ryan Coogler and Greta Gerwig among the filmmakers she’d want to work with, suggesting her wish list extends well beyond any single franchise.
The interest makes sense given the year Navarrette just had. “Obsession,” a horror-romance made for $750,000 and shot in twenty days, has become one of the unlikelier box office stories in recent memory, climbing past $400 million worldwide after opening to $17 million in North America.
Unlike most horror titles, which typically front-load their earnings, the film grew in its second weekend and kept building for a month, a pattern industry veterans called almost unheard of for the genre. Acquired by Focus Features for roughly $15 million out of the 2025 Toronto festival, it now stands as the studio’s highest-grossing release ever and has drawn early Oscar buzz for both Navarrette and writer-director Curry Barker.
Despite the outside offers piling up, Navarrette’s next confirmed role is already locked in. She’s finished shooting “Invertigo,” a thriller from director Matthias Hoene about teenagers trapped atop a malfunctioning roller coaster. As for a follow-up to “Obsession,” Barker has said he has ideas for expanding the story, but Navarrette sounds more drawn to the idea of an anthology approach that would leave her character’s arc untouched, comparing the film to a sealed chapter of memory rather than an open door.
For now, she says the exhaustion of the past year hasn’t dulled her ambition. She’s lost sleep chasing meetings and premieres, and she’s treating the moment as one that may not return. Her stated goal is proving that her breakout wasn’t a fluke, and every meeting with a director like Mann or Schreier reads as a step toward answering that question on her own terms.
