While Superman & Lois fans certainly had, and still have, plenty of love for Inde Navarrette, the actress was a relative unknown before her unmissable performance in Obsession. The 25-year-old is even generating Oscar buzz for her work, and it seems she's destined for superstardom.
At D23 last Friday, Marvel Studios announced that Navarrette will star in Jake Schreier's X-Men reboot as Rogue, a character likely to be front and centre in the Mutant Saga. If future projects delve into her ties to characters such as Mystique, Nightcrawler, Magneto, Gambit, and Captain Marvel, the sky is the limit in terms of storytelling potential.
Now, a new Page Six report offers confirmation that Navarrette is committed to the MCU. According to the outlet, she was being eyed to play Sharlene in Mattias Hoehne's Heat 2 (Ashley Judd originally played the character in the 1995 movie).
The rising star has also passed on a horror project directed by Mattias Hoehne, despite being offered at least $2.5 million to star in it. Navarrette chose X-Men over both movies, signalling that she's far more excited to play Rogue than potentially sharing the screen with Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio.
The site adds that a "prominent" Hollywood producer told them "she is on everyone’s short list right now" and that regularly turning down mid-seven-figure offers has become the norm after Obsession's surprise success.
"I really want to prove that 'Obsession' wasn’t just lightning in a bottle," Navarrette previously said of her aspirations. "This is something that I really love and want to continue doing, but of course that’s going to take time. I want people to take that time to trust that I have that capability. I also want to fall on my face publicly and have something that people don’t like, [but] maybe I do."
Going all in on a franchise like X-Men isn't a bad decision on the actress's part. Thunderbolts* may not have been a box office hit, but it was one of Marvel Studios' most critically acclaimed titles, and a new X-Men movie stands a much better chance of finding a huge audience two years from now.
Directed by Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts*), the untitled X-Men movie stars Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as Scott Summers, Christopher Abbott (Catch-22) as Professor Charles Xavier, Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) as Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette (Obsession) as Rogue, and Maya Boyd (& Juliet) as Storm. Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will play Nathaniel Milbury.
X-Men will be released exclusively in theaters May 5, 2028.