Inde Navarrette is in the middle of a busy stretch of interviews for Obsession, and two conversations this week answered questions fans have been asking for very different reasons: one about the blonde hair that set off a wave of Marvel speculation, and one about the scene in the film that quietly took the most out of her.
The hair question started earlier this month, when photos of Navarrette at Universal Studios Hollywood showed her with platinum blonde hair and bleached eyebrows. Because she is set to play Rogue in Marvel Studios’ X-Men reboot, many fans took the look as a first step toward the role.
At the GQ Men of the Year party in Los Angeles on Thursday, she put that idea to rest. Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Navarrette said the blonde was “100% a wig laid very beautifully. But I do have bleached brows. That is really fun.”
The wig, it turns out, had a practical purpose: a day at the park with friends, without being recognized. “I wanted to go to Universal Studios with my friends, and I didn’t want to be recognized, and so we laid a wig down,” she said.
Asked whether Rogue herself might go blonde in the film, she was just as direct: “I can confirm that I don’t believe that Rogue is going to be a blonde, unfortunately. Sorry.” Navarrette was announced as Rogue at Disney’s D23 fan event in August, joining director Jake Schreier’s X-Men reboot, due in theaters May 5, 2028. She has been trying out Rogue’s Southern accent since the fall, and the character’s hair, it seems, will stay closer to the Rogue fans know.
The second conversation looked back at the film that put her in this position. In a new ELLE Women in Hollywood conversation, highlighted by Bloody Disgusting, Navarrette was asked which scene in Obsession was the hardest to film. Her answer was not one of the film’s supernatural sequences. It was the trivia bar scene, where she had to come back to the real Nikki after long stretches as the wish-controlled version of her.
“I had spent so much time playing ‘Wish’ Nikki that going into real Nikki was really, really difficult,” she said. “Playing real Nikki was actually harder than I had anticipated.”
It is a telling detail about the performance at the center of her awards season run, one that has already brought her the Critics Choice Breakthrough Actress honor and Fangoria’s Best Lead Performance award. Navarrette has stayed grounded through the attention, most recently in her Playlist interview about the Oscar buzz around the role. Readers who have not seen the film yet can catch up soon: Obsession arrives on Netflix on Tuesday, November 17.
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