{"id":434113,"date":"2026-09-12T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:54:09","slug":"inde-navarrette-draws-on-south-texas-roots-for-x-men-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434113\/","title":{"rendered":"Inde Navarrette draws on South Texas roots for X-Men Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Inde Navarrette may be best known for her role in Obsession, but she&#8217;s now preparing for a new challenge and says the women of Corpus Christi are helping inspire her performance.<\/p>\n<p>Navarrette has been cast as Rogue in Marvel Studios&#8217; upcoming X-Men film.<\/p>\n<p>Because Rogue is from Mississippi and speaks with a Southern accent, Navarrette says her upbringing in Texas will help her bring authenticity to the role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up in Texas for a good majority of my life, so honestly, those Southern women are really my favorite. Corpus Christi is the city specifically,&#8221; she said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Navarrette added that she plans to travel to Mississippi to further research the character and, as she put it, &#8220;do her justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Inde Navarrette may be best known for her role in Obsession, but she&#8217;s now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,150571,107992,150572,1474,150743],"class_list":["post-434113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-inde-navarrette","tag-obsession","tag-rogue","tag-south-texas","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}