Inde Navarrette says she was never actually offered Heat 2 role

During the interview, Navarrette said that she wasn’t getting many projects before Obsession‘s release, but after the movie blew up at the box office, people in the industry started paying much more attention to her, and it’s been “gratifying.” In a Nylon interview published in July, the publication reported that Navarrette met with X-Men director Schreier and Mann, who was assembling his Heat 2 cast around that time. Then at D23 in August, Navarrette’s casting in X-Men was officially announced. Days later, Page Six reported that Navarrette was on the shortlist for Heat 2 but was no longer in contention because of her commitment to X-Men, leading people to assume she turned down Mann’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1995 crime drama for a role in the MCU. Navarrette didn’t mention which role she auditioned for, but Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Adam Driver, Jason Clarke, Odessa Young, Stephen Graham, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach have all been reported as being in the running or cast in Heat 2. Elaborating on her experience, Navarrette said that she submitted “multiple self tapes” and asked for feedback. “It’s with an insane cast and even if it was as small of a character, I just wanted to learn,” Navarrette said. “Definitely didn’t say no. But I think that’s one of those opportunities where no matter how big you get, you’re still gonna get told no.”