11 Interesting Facts About Obsession

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1. #001

   Curry Barker recalled that Inde Navarrette caught him off guard at first with how calm she was while preparing for the shoot: "She's one of those people where she was very reserved in her rehearsals, so it was very much a mystery to me what she was capable of... I remember the scene... where she's kissing Bear on the bed and she flies back.... And I looked at my producer, Haley (Haley Nicole Johnson), and I was like, 'OK, we got a movie...' We only did one take of that."

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2. #002

   For the scene where Nikki vomits on Bear, the tube rigged to create the effect sent the vomit mixture into Inde Navarrette's mouth and down her throat, making her gag and nearly throw up for real onto Michael Johnston's face. His look of fear was genuine, since he expected her to actually vomit on him. Johnston later said he would have been willing to be vomited on for real to make the scene as realistic as possible.

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3. #003

   Many of the scenes in which Nikki becomes increasingly unhinged were rehearsed privately by Curry Barker and Inde Navarrette. When the time came to shoot them, Michael Johnston often had no idea what was planned, so his reactions were entirely genuine.

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4. #004

   Director Curry Barker later planned additional filming for the party scene, only to learn that the house used for it had burned down completely in the 2025 Palisades fire.

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5. #005

   Curry Barker ended up rejecting the idea that Bear was named for the 2024 viral "man vs. bear" debate, though he said he wishes he had come up with that; his only aim was to give the two leads names people would remember.

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6. #006
   Contains a major spoiler — show

   Inde Navarrette confirmed that the real Nikki talks to Bear while her possessed self is asleep. She described how she built the moment physically: "if you look closely during that scene, my body is convulsing," she said, adding that "my brain and body were completely disconnected, like the two Nikkis." The result was "visceral shakes," meant to show the character's physical panic as she begs a friend she trusts to kill her.

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7. #007
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   In the restaurant dinner scene, when Bear asks whether Nikki's father really has cancer, Inde Navarrette confirmed that Nikki's first answer, "No...", comes from the real Nikki, who has briefly regained control of her body. Once Nikki starts repeating herself, the false Nikki has taken over again.

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Behind the Scenes (3)

8. #008

   Shortly after Bear breaks the One Wish Willow, Nikki opens his driver's side door and says "I know what you're trying to do." She stands, starts to turn right, then left, spins around and laughs at herself while Bear laughs too and repeats "What are you doing!?" The moment wasn't in the script: Inde Navarrette had forgotten whether she was meant to turn left or right and ended up doing a 180. She admitted the mistake in an interview, but it seemed so odd and so right for the scene that it stayed in the film.

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9. #009

   The music store scenes were shot at the real Cassell's Music at 901 North Maclay Street in San Fernando, California. Wayne's World (1992) also filmed there, in the scene where Mike Myers's Wayne Campbell longs for a 1964 Fender Stratocaster in Classic White. Cassell's Music shut down in 2025 after almost 78 years in business, not long after the production finished shooting in 2024.

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10. #010
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    Sarah's dead body is in fact a life-size sex doll. It was cheaper than having a full-size prosthetic human body made with special effects.

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Characters & Cast (1)

11. #011

    A close look at the box shows that One Wish Willow was made by Tabi Cat Curiosities. Following the link leads to a real prop replica company. Tabi stands for "That's A Bad Idea," the YouTube channel Curry Barker ran with his friend Cooper Tomlinson, who plays Ian, before Barker became a director.

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