Obsession Star Inde Navarrette Wants to Play Mystique Following Talks With X-Men Director

Obsession prima Indie Navarrette has named Mystique arsenic the quality she wants to play successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) pursuing talks with X-Men manager Jake Schreier.

The breakout prima from May's low-budget fearfulness deed confirmed she met with the filmmaker astatine slightest erstwhile during a caller interrogation with Variety. It's a gathering she's mentioned before, and portion she refrained from spilling the beans astir everything they talked about, it sounds similar her imaginable aboriginal successful the MCU is thing that's inactive connected her mind.

A conception from her speech with the tract saw the histrion picking communal Google searches featuring her sanction from a food bowl. When 1 hunt said, "Indie Navarrette Black Cat," she confessed she didn't cognize who the Spider-Man quality is. Still, the online chatter from fans hoping to spot her articulation the MCU successful immoderate capableness is thing she's keenly alert of.

"Every clip that I spot thing similar this I'll giggle because, like, evidently I cognize the truth, but I would emotion to beryllium a portion of Marvel," Navarrette said. "I deliberation it's fun, particularly since I grew up watching X-Men – the 2000 X-Men. That would beryllium fun."

When pressed connected her gathering with Schreier, she clarified that she's been taking "a batch of meetings" since Obsession crept its mode into theaters earlier this year. That could mean a batch of things, but astatine slightest arsenic acold arsenic the MCU is concerned, she's blessed to sing the director's praises.

"I thought what helium brought to Thunderbolts* was what I utilized to emotion astir Marvel. It was character-driven," Navarrette added. "So, the full time, I conscionable couldn't halt yappin' astir however overmuch I appreciated what helium had brought to Marvel.

"That's the luxury that I person close now, gathering each of these antithetic kinds of people. Not each of them crook into projects. It'll be, 'I conscionable truly privation to enactment with you, and I've seen this task of yours and this and this and this.' So, I conscionable truly wanted to congratulate him connected bringing backmost my favourite happening of Thunderbolts*, and he's a precise saccharine person."

Even if her gathering with Schreier did get her ft successful the doorway astatine Marvel HQ, it seems she's not acceptable to corroborate immoderate casting quality yet. It makes sense, particularly arsenic the MCU drip feeds fans updates, including today's, which saw Ready oregon Not prima Samara Weaving confirmed to play Emma Frost. Navarrette does, however, person 1 quality successful mind, should she get the call.

"Oh, I mean, Mystique has ever been ace cool," she replied erstwhile asked who she'd similar to play. "Growing up, I retrieve watching the behind-the-scenes process of each the prosthetics. That was ace chill for me. I would ever ticker behind-the-scenes of a batch of stuff. Pirates of the Caribbean, I remember, was a large happening that I would ticker the BTS of. X-Men, you know, the prosthetics. I conscionable find it truthful fascinating."

Hearing Navarrette outcry retired Mystique mightiness dependable similar euphony to the ears of those who person been campaigning to spot her play the mutant shapeshifter. Again, thing is confirmed rather yet, but arsenic Marvel continues tracking down younger endowment to capable the roles of the X-Men, thing is possible. For now, it is astatine slightest confirmed that 2000s Mystique histrion Rebecca Romijn volition instrumentality alongside her X-Men co-stars successful Avengers: Doomsday aboriginal this year.

As we hold to spot however Navarrette follows up Obsession, you tin cheque retired IGN's Spider-Man: Brand New Day review. You tin besides spot however she reacted to a instrumentality gifting her a uncommon transcript of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

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