‘Obsession’ Star Inde Navarrette on How Toni Collette’s Hereditary Performance “Inspired” Her “A Lot” [Exclusive]
EXCLUSIVE: Inde Navarrette has delivered one of the most exciting performances of the year in Obsession, the debut horror feature from filmmaker Curry Barker. When speaking exclusively with Dread Central’s Ashliene McMenamy, Navarrette reflected on how awards season finally seems to be making more room for genre performances.
After decades of horror being treated like an outsider at the prestige table, recent attention around work from Amy Madigan, Michael B. Jordan, and Demi Moore suggests the industry may be slowly catching up to what fans have known forever: genre acting is acting.
But for Navarrette, one performance still looms especially large: Toni Collette in Hereditary.
Collette’s work in Ari Aster’s modern horror classic has become a shorthand for one of the Academy’s most glaring recent misses. Navarrette points to that performance as a major inspiration while building Nikki. Check out that conversation here:
“I have to give flowers to someone who didn’t get enough,” she says of Collette. “What an absolute performance, and she inspired me a lot for Nikki,” Navarrette told McMenamy.
In a must-read piece on why Navarrette deserves serious awards season recognition, McMenamy writes:
“What makes the performance so effective is that she never lets Nikki become a caricature of a possessed girl, even as the film spirals further and further into nightmare territory. She manages to maintain a sense of humanity, clinging to fragments of her former self and pleading for mercy as Bear’s wish hollows her out from the inside.”
Obsession is now playing only in theaters.
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