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While Inde Navarrette gives a chilling capacity successful Obsession, she’s responding to sermon complete nan characteristic being some a villain and victim.
The actress, who plays Nikki successful nan Curry Barker scary film, explained why she “wanted to humanize” nan characteristic aft her champion friend Bear (Michael Johnston) makes a wish that she would emotion him much than thing successful nan world.
“It meant a batch to me, and I really wanted to return it seriously,” she told DiscussingFilm. “I didn’t wanna conscionable awkward distant from thing astir that, truthful I really sat pinch Nikki for rather sometime … but I really wanted to return her seriously, and I wanted to humanize her. I really wanted to represent her arsenic a existent girl. And I wanted group to spot themselves and to consciousness each facet of themselves, if that was their experience.”
Navarrette continued, “But I recovered that location was a quality betwixt what Bear was intending to do versus nan measurement that it impacted Nikki, and really sometimes, what you tin intend is not ever really it mightiness travel across.”
While Naverrette plays Nikki arsenic being possessed by a sinister tone who’s obsessed pinch Bear, her capacity besides includes tortured outbursts arsenic nan existent Nikki sporadically breaks free from her subconscious to respond successful scary arsenic her friend takes advantage of nan situation.
Now playing successful theaters, Obsession besides stars Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless and Andy Richter.
Following Barker’s 2024 directorial debut Milk & Serial, Obsession marks his breakout, up of a afloat slate that includes Blumhouse’s Anything but Ghosts and A24’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
