Horror Hit ‘Obsession’ Sends One Woman’s Career Skyrocketing, Another’s Spiraling

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“Obsession” star Inde Navarrette revealed Tuesday she could not find acting work for over a year after the hit indie horror comedy was released.

“I didn’t work for a year and half after ‘Obsession’ came out. Like, I was auditioning, I was doing everything, just nothing was sticking,” Navarrette told Complex.

“Obsession” was filmed for $750,000 and has already grossed more than $300 million at the box office, according to Deadline. (RELATED: Hollywood Scheming To Tank Paramount’s Bid For Warner Bros. Discovery) 

Navarrette added: “And I wanted to, you know, pay rent, and I wanted to do things, so I was walking dogs, I was streaming, doing everything I could to … pay rent and do those things.” 

Navarrette has a Twitch channel with nearly 70,000 followers, though it seems her old streams have been deleted. A YouTube channel bearing Navarrette’s name has popped up, which features four videos of the actress playing survival horror game “Outlast” and action-adventure game “The Last of Us.”

Old clips of the actress playing “Call of Duty” on Twitch (quite skillfully, according to commenters) have gone viral on X. 

Navarette told GQ she built her “own PC during COVID,” adding it “was really fun to start to get into PC games.”

Obsession star Inde Navarrette used to be a streamer on Twitch playing Call of Duty and The Last of Us, before her breakout success

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She continued: “It really just took off with me loving watching YouTubers growing up, like Markiplier. So for me, it was like, Oh, why not? If I’m not working on a show and I love playing video games by myself and I love playing with friends, then why not stream? It became a lot of fun.”

Now, Navarrette is poised to become a Hollywood darling. The “Obsession” actress is set to star in singer Sombr’s music video for “my body isn’t ready,” dropping Thursday. Navarrette’s Instagram is awash with glowing features in magazines including Wonderland, Interview, and A Shot. 

One might contrast Navarrette’s perseverance — and publicly positive attitude — with the poor attitude of “Obsession” art director Sally Choi, whose complaints about her compensation for the film went viral in early June. (RELATED: Quentin Tarantino Slams Hollywood Films Of Today, Scoffs At ‘Stupid Shit’ Being Released)  

“Obsession” was filmed in 26 days. Choi claims she agreed to a rate of $300 per day, coming out to a little over $6700 after taxes. Choi, who reportedly had one credit prior to “Obsession,” whined: “I kick myself every single day for not flipping this production.”

A wiser woman, such as Navarrette, would leverage the runaway success of “Obsession” to launch a lucrative career. Unverified reports suggest Navarrette was paid about $20,000 for the role — hardly a bad rate for a month of work for a normal person, but far below the dazzling sums earned by Hollywood stars.

“Obsession” director Curry Barker addressed Choi’s complaints in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Barker said he has “nothing but respect for the art department, and the work they did was extraordinary,” adding that the department “deserve[s] to be recognized.”

Barker continued: “This movie was made for so little money that it’s typical that the only people who [directly] benefit from its financial success are the people who took on some sort of risk. But what I hope is that every person that worked really hard on this film will see opportunities to catapult their careers in ways that can be very financially fruitful for them — like what’s happening for me.”

That is precisely what Navarrette appears to be doing. For his part, Barker reportedly closed an eight-figure deal with Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal for an upcoming original horror movie. Barker has already shot his second feature film, “Anything But Ghosts,” which stars big names like Aaron Paul and Bryce Dallas Howard.