13 Reasons Why's Inde Navarrette on Why She Cried After the Finale

Perfect. Oh, perfect. Yay! Okay. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Hi, how are you guys?

I'm good. How are you?

I saw, I followed you on Instagram and I saw your new nails and I wanted to tell you I like them.

Thank you, thank you. I honestly, I needed them, I needed them.

I know. How long has it been since you've had them on?

Since the beginning of quarantine. And then my mom got the polymer kit that you see everywhere like on Instagram and stuff and so we tried doing it and I just, you know, there's something about going into the shop, picking what you want and getting them done. It's just.

Right. Are you, would you say like you're obsessed with like beauty, nails, makeup, and all that? Or just like nails?

Um, honestly, I'm not really good at makeup. I've tried. Um, but I find it an art in it, but I think nails for me have always been a go-to. It doesn't matter if I don't have any makeup on, if I have my nails then I'm good to go.

Yeah, then you're good to go. And when you're on set and people are doing your makeup and stuff, do you love that part? Do you love the glam part?

Oh, yeah, cuz then you just relax. I take a nap. I always take a nap on set. She would do a jade roller and I just fall asleep.

Oh, yeah, always. The jade roller. There's just something about the jade roller.

Yeah, it's just the coldness, it takes down the puffy.

Mhm. And speaking of acting and being on set and everything, did you, well, congratulations on being in 13 Reasons Why. That's so epic.

Thank you.

When you were casting for the show and booking it and when you found out you booked it, had you watched the show before?

Oh, yeah. It's really interesting. I was going through videos the other day to try and see um if I had any of me watching the show. And I have a video of me doing some stupid stuff. You just see Justin Foley in the back. So, um no, yeah, I definitely watched the first two seasons and then whenever I booked the show the third season hadn't been out yet. So.

Oh, okay, yeah. That's crazy. When you, how did the, how was the casting process and then when you found out you booked it, how was that?

It was so satisfying because I I had um I went in for the in-person audition and it was just really nerve-wracking because they had a code name for it so that you don't know what it is. And then my manager was like, "Hey, um like on the low-down, this is 13 Reasons Why." I was like, "Oh my gosh." So, I went in, did it, didn't think I got it. Um flew to Texas to see some family and they're like, "Hey, by the way, you have a call back tomorrow at this time." And I'm in Texas so I had to fly home, memorize the lines on the plane ride and get there. I did it, I rocked it and then three weeks went by, didn't hear anything. And um my manager calls me and we have this spreadsheet like with our auditions and stuff and she goes, "Oh, I need you to fix this." So, I went on there and it said booked and I started freaking out and I just got really excited. Yeah.

Within the three weeks when you weren't hearing anything, were you thinking about it 24/7? Like were you like, did you forget about it? What were you feeling?

I don't think I forgot about it. I tried to forget about it because I just I had this gut feeling. I was like, "No, like it it has to come around. It has to come around. I killed it like there's no way that I did not get this." So, after the three weeks I kind of was just like, "You know what, I'm just going to put it down and if it comes, it comes and if it doesn't, it doesn't but I know that I killed it and I did really good." So, then when I got the call, I was like, "Yep, I knew it." So, I was excited.

So you had the gut feeling? That's so awesome. Yeah. And have you watched, did you binge-watch when the season came out? Season four? Or did you not watch it for a little bit?

For season four, I um I got screeners, I think I'm allowed to say that, that I got the first um eight episodes before it came out. So I watched it and I was just like, "Holy, like this is weird. I don't know how to do this." cuz I haven't really had anything that big before. So I was watching it. I was like, "Wow, like this is really powerful, this is me." And then um the last two episodes I watched whenever season four actually came out on June 5th and I just cried for two days straight because it's just letting go of a character that's fictional or not. And I know Brandon personally so watching that and seeing his acting was just so powerful.

When you were watching it, do you like watching yourself or are you like, "Oh, I can't look." or how is it?

I don't know. I think that maybe as time goes by, I'd get more comfortable with seeing that. But I don't know. I don't think I'd ever be able to get used to the fact that like you're looking on TV and you see yourself. I don't think, yeah, I think if people say that they get used to it they're lying. It's weird. It's really weird. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a little bit. With social media and everything, have you found that like people have been discovering you and DMing you about your character and just kind of freaking out about you like on social media?

Um, yeah, it was really weird. I I knew that was gonna happen. I just didn't expect it to be a lot all at once and kind of overnight. Um, yeah, I try not to check my DMs as much just because of certain things but I definitely have seen the love and just everybody like fan pages. Didn't think that was gonna happen as quick as it did and it did and there's one, Estella Dela Cruz, and I'm just like, "Wow, like that's me." And you're doing like the cute little edits. So it's fun, it's cool cuz I remember watching um TV shows and then finding the fan pages to see my favorite characters and them playing. So the fact of somebody doing that to me is just really weird. Yeah. But cool.

And it happened when you were at home too. So that's like such a different element to things.

Mhm. Yeah.

Do you think that like when you go out and about again like people are gonna come up to you and recognize you and be like, "Oh my God, like I saw you in 13 Reasons Why." Because you're gonna have to deal with that, I feel like, because you haven't really been outside the house necessarily like around like people to see them react to you in person.

Yeah. Um, maybe. I don't know. I mean, I I'm kind of a homebody so I don't really go out as much. But when I do, if it does happen that's gonna be terrifying knowing that I walk around in sweatpants. I'm not I don't like it's gonna be so. Like it's just gonna be super funny. But yeah, I I think that it will happen soon. I'm not quite sure. Maybe. It hasn't happened yet.

And besides acting when you're not on set and like reading your lines and learning them, what do you, what would you find you doing the most?

Oh, that's a really good question. Um, I start things that I never finish them. So I will if I get feel inspiration, I'll start painting. I love painting. I think art is absolutely beautiful to express yourself. Uh, but if I'm being truly honest, I have been binge-watching Criminal Minds for the past two weeks and there's 12 seasons. So, um, that most likely as of right now, but usually seeing friends, going out and about, I love museums. I think they're really cool. So once things are opening up, um, that's what I gear towards but, um, usually I'm a homebody and as of right now, Criminal Minds is

Always a perfect show. I've already watched Criminal Minds all 12 seasons twice. So.

Really?

Yeah. I started like like two years ago, I think, and then I was like, "Ran out of a show." And I was like, "Well, I love Criminal Minds." I'm just gonna watch it all again. So.

I feel yeah, I feel you there with the binge-watching. Yeah.

If you were to be in any show or movie that, or basically what one would you, a show or movie you'd want to be in and then what's your dream role?

That's a really good question. Wow, okay. Um, I think to kind of just satisfy the little me whenever I would watch like Vampire Diaries or something like that, to be in a show like that where there's just like drama and the boy comes after you and you fall in love and there's, "Ah, get away!" I think that's just like, you know. Um, but I think a movie that I would love to be in is I fell in love with acting watching Cheater Girls and Natalie Portman's uh Leon the Professional, which are two very, very, very different movies. So I think that something along the lines of Leon the Professional where you're able to kind of have this innocence but also at the same time tackle dark subjects that normally people don't talk about. Um, but no, definitely something along those lines. I love Margot Robbie right now and Jennifer Lawrence and everything like that. So just kind of that in the spectrum.

Yes, very cool. And then we wanna play a little game if that's cool.

Yeah.

Okay, so it's the game of firsts. Okay.

Okay.

It's not that hard. You'll you're okay.

Okay, so the first thing you're going to do when you can do anything again, like after quarantine?

Oh my God. Um, well, the first thing that I have to do is fly to Canada to film Superman and Lois. But I think that

Yes.

Yes, but I think the first thing that I will love to. I got into snowboarding before quarantine hit. And I think afterwards I'd love to hit the slopes in Canada because they're just I've heard they're beautiful. So I think that is the first thing that I'm gonna do. Yeah.

As soon as things clear up, you have to like you're gonna go right to Canada. That's like your summer. Yeah. Are you excited?

Oh, yeah. I love working. I think it's so much fun.

Did you think that you would ever spend the summer in Canada filming a show?

No, I didn't really think I'd ever go to Canada if I'm being very honest. But I think that for work and for shows, I think that Vancouver is a perfect place to be.

First person that you texted when 13 Reasons Why came out.

Oh, that's a really good, I. Oh, I think I messaged um, James, he's one of the he's one of the punks. Um, James and Keanu, we created like a really good friendship, me and all the punks. Um, Good. But I think I messaged my mom first. I think I she, her and I were messaging each other back and forth like, "Oh my God." Freaking out like it's out, people can see it. And yeah, I think that was the first person that I texted.

First song that you always play.

When it comes to playing music. Nobody really knows it but it's um, it's a song called Uncomfortable by MONSA. It's M A N S A and I love it so much. Yeah.

First time you watched yourself in 13 Reasons Why?

Um, when it came, oh, well, um a week before it came out, yeah, with the screeners.

First time you forgot one of your lines.

I'm blanking, I'm blanking. It's in graduation. It was the very end of the episode in graduation. I kept either looking at the camera or I kept um blanking on what I was gonna say. Mhm.

Well you got through it. Everything's fine.

I did. Oh my gosh. I was having I just reliving it for a second. I was like, "Oh my God."

First thing you're gonna do when you get on set in Vancouver.

Oh my God, say hi to everybody cuz um the two boys that are playing Superman's sons, um we all have I think I can say this, like we are Gen Z-in. And um so we're kind of all in a group chat together right now saying hi. So I think I'm gonna see them in person for the first time and just run up and be like, "Oh my God." Like, "Hi."

They haven't met them yet in person.

No, not yet. No, no, no, no. But it's cool cuz I'm the oldest one. When on set in 13, everybody was older than me, significantly. So it's cool now cuz I can play like mama bear. And be cool.

Oh, how the roles are reversed.

Oh, how the roles are reversed.

Well, good luck in Vancouver. You're killing it with your first TV appearance too in 13 Reasons Why.

Thank you.

Stay safe, mamas.