Obsession Star Inde Navarrette Talks GTA 6 Excitement
Every time a huge game gets close to launch, a handful of celebrities show up talking about how hyped they are for it, and most of the time it’s pretty obvious they’ve barely touched a controller. Inde Navarrette is a different case entirely, and the receipts to prove it.
The actress behind Nikki Freeman in this year’s horror sensation Obsession recently talked about her excitement for GTA 6, and unlike most star endorsements, this one comes from someone who actually plays. She’s said she’s hyped over the graphics and how immersive the world looks, plans to boot the game up on day one with her brother, and even joked about the idea of making money off GTA roleplay once she’s in Leonida.
Not Just Another Celebrity Photo Op
Obsession turned into one of 2026’s biggest surprises at the box office, pulling in around $339 million worldwide off a production budget of only $750,000. That kind of return doesn’t happen often, and it turned Navarrette into a name a lot more people recognize overnight. Born March 3, 2001, she was gaming long before any of that fame showed up.
She started young, playing Shrek games on the PlayStation 2 with her mom and older brother before eventually moving on to single-player campaigns on her own. When COVID hit and everyone was stuck inside, she turned that into an actual Twitch hobby, streaming Call of Duty, Halo, Red Dead Redemption, Fallout, and The Last of Us for whoever wanted to watch. Her old uploads aren’t around anymore, but her verified Twitch channel is still live if you want to check it out.
She Built Her Own PC
Here’s the part that separates her from most “gamer” celebrity claims: she built her own gaming PC during the pandemic, the same kind of machine she’ll eventually need to check against whatever GTA 6 PC requirements Rockstar publishes closer to launch. That’s not a small thing. Picking every part, learning what actually works together, and putting it all together yourself takes real time and effort, and she says she saved up for it and taught herself through YouTube tutorials, including Henry Cavill’s now-famous PC build video from 2020.
It wasn’t just a hobby project either. During an 18-month gap without any acting work following Obsession, streaming reportedly helped her cover rent. That’s a very different story than a star casually mentioning they “love gaming” in a press junket.
How She Compares to Other Celebrity Gamers
Navarrette isn’t the only actor talking about GTA 6 lately. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown recently shared her own, fairly unusual plan for how she wants to experience the game, and Navarrette’s approach, actually building hardware and streaming for years, reads as a step above that kind of casual mention.
It says something about the industry that a celebrity genuinely being a gamer counts as news in itself. Celebrity gaming endorsements have felt hollow for a long time now, usually just a star handed a controller for a quick photo and a name-drop of whatever’s about to release. So when someone shows up with actual Twitch VODs, a self-built rig, and real childhood memories tied to gaming, it stands out mostly because that kind of authenticity is rare. She’s got the same kind of genuine energy as Dustin from Stranger Things, who’s made similar headlines for actually caring about this stuff.
Her Excitement Doesn’t Make Her an Insider
To be clear, being a real gamer doesn’t give Navarrette any secret insight into what GTA 6 will actually be like. She’s just as much in the dark as the rest of us, she just happens to have a PC capable of running it well whenever a port eventually shows up. What makes her worth writing about isn’t insider knowledge. It’s that her excitement feels real and relatable instead of manufactured for a headline.
Her plans to play day one with her brother are a tiny piece of the much bigger wave of anticipation building around this launch, the same energy behind record-setting pre-order numbers and the handful of controversies that have popped up along the way.
Like most fans heading into launch day, she’ll be getting to know Jason Duval and Lucia firsthand, and anyone wanting a head start on their story can find it in our GTA 6 main characters guide. She’s counting down to the GTA 6 release date on November 19, 2026 right alongside everyone else, and that shared anticipation is part of why GTA 6 has started to feel like something bigger than just a video game release. It’s the kind of launch that could push Take-Two Interactive to a whole new level as a company, and having actual fans in Hollywood talking it up like this only adds to that momentum.
About the Author
