Muses of Media

Ask an entertainment journalist who they’d wish to interview right now, and chances are they’d say writer/director/editor Curry Barker of this year’s horror hit Obsession and the film’s breakout star Inde Navarrette.

Luckily, I didn’t have to break a One Wish Willow to get my chance to speak to them; I just had to brave the Los Angeles weekday-afternoon traffic.

Watch the full interview with Inde Navarrette and Curry Barker below:

Curry and Navarrette are among the YouTubers and streamers who have made a big splash in Hollywood this year alongside Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach and his film Iron Lung, Kane Parsons’ Backrooms and Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin’s announcement that he will produce a Bloodborne movie.

“YouTube was kind of our generation’s first format for filmmaking,” Navarrette said. “I feel like it’s a very natural path to take for somebody as talented and creative as Markiplier, and also for somebody as talented and creative as Curry.”

Barker said that platforms like YouTube served as a proving ground and exhibition space for young filmmakers without access to the same resources as a production studio.

“For a long time there’s been a kind of a gap between the traditional industry and YouTube,” Barker added. “That gap is being bridged more and more and more, and I think studios are starting to look at talent from YouTube and taking it seriously.”

Many filmmakers and horror fans contend that all horror is, and always has been, political. When I asked whether Navarrette and Curry believed this to be true and whether it applied to Obsession, Navarrette said she thinks all art is “punk and political.”

“Politics are kind of based off perception and life experiences, and what is cinema without perspective and life experiences?” the actress said. “Something that was happening with this film is nobody was told how to feel; they just watched a life experience. So I think inherently it is political…not to speak for Curry.”

For his part, Barker simply said, “Every good story has a point of view, you know?”

If you’d like to know a little bit about their perspectives, Barker is obsessed with glasses while Navarrette is obsessed with shoes. Barker doesn’t know what he would use a One Wish Willow for, and Navarrette wants “a perfect couch for my living room because why is furniture shopping so difficult?”

And both of them are scared of not knowing whether or not they’ve cancelled their subscription services.

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