Obsession star Inde Navarrette is a real gamer. She built her own PC, streamed on Twitch, and plans to play Grand Theft Auto VI on day one with her brother.
Inde Navarrette, the breakout star of the 2026 horror hit Obsession, recently opened up about her excitement for Grand Theft Auto VI, geeking out over the graphics and immersion, saying she plans to play on day one with her brother, and joking about flipping a profit through Grand Theft Auto roleplay.
What makes her different from plenty of celebrities who claim to love games when a big one is about to drop is that she's got the receipts to back it up.
Navarrette, born March 3, 2001, broke out as Nikki Freeman in Obsession, a supernatural horror film that became one of 2026's biggest surprises, grossing roughly $339 million worldwide against a reported production budget of just $750,000. However, long before all the fame, this beautiful face was a gamer who streamed her favorite titles just like everyone else.
Navarrette started gaming as a kid on the PlayStation 2, playing Shrek titles with her mom and older brother, branched into campaign games solo, and during the COVID lockdowns turned it into a Twitch streaming hobby covering Call of Duty, Halo, Red Dead Redemption, Fallout, and The Last of Us.
Unfortunately, her previous uploads are long gone, but her verified Twitch channel is still up.
She claims she built her own PC during the pandemic, an expensive and genuinely difficult project she saved up for and learned by watching YouTube tutorials, including Henry Cavill's famously detailed 2020 PC-building video. She even streamed to help pay rent during an 18-month stretch with no acting work after Obsession.
This is a step above Millie Bobby Brown, who recently shared the unusual way he plans on playing the next GTA.
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It is a little telling that a celebrity being a real gamer is the story itself, because it says how much we have been trained to expect the opposite. For years, celebrity gaming endorsements have often felt hollow, a star handed a controller for a photo, name-dropping a game they clearly do not play.
So when someone like Navarrette shows up with actual Twitch VODs, a self-built PC, and childhood gaming memories, the authenticity stands out precisely because you don't see it quite often. Navarrette is refreshing because she reminds you what the real thing looks like, much like Dustin from Stranger Things.
To be fair, her being a real gamer does not make her GTA 6 take any better. She is as much in the dark about the actual game as any of us, just with better PC specs to play it on whenever the port comes out. Her excitement is fun to see and relatable, and that's awesome. Sometimes a celebrity being genuinely, specifically excited about the same thing you are is the whole point.
Her plans are just a small part of the ginormous hype surrounding the launch of GTA 6, the same energy driving record-breaking pre-order projections and controversies.
Much like us, she's counting down to the same release, which is part of what makes GTA feel larger than gaming and how it can realistically be the game that takes Take-Two Interactive to new heights.
