Actress and streamer Inde Navarrette went viral over the weekend after a fan handed her a sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2 at Fanatics Fest in New York's Javits Center — and her reaction was pure, unfiltered excitement.
Navarrette was leaving a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 panel she shared with Kevin Durant when a fan stepped forward holding a sealed, display-case copy of the 2009 original Modern Warfare 2. She grabbed it immediately, identified the year on the spot, and made it crystal clear she's not flipping it for cash — "I'm not selling this one!" she said, hugging the box to her chest. The fan noted one recently sold for $1,000; sealed Xbox 360 copies on eBay are currently listed anywhere up to $20,000. As for where it's going, Navarrette's answer was simple: "In my house. In my room."
Navarrette's gaming credentials are genuine. She told GQ she started on PlayStation 2 as a kid — Shrek games in Big Head mode with her mom and brother — then moved into shooters like CoD and Halo before getting into story-driven games like Red Dead Redemption, Outlast, and The Last of Us. She streamed on Twitch to help pay the bills between acting jobs after filming Obsession, and clips from those streams have been spreading across social media, winning her real respect from the gaming community rather than the usual celebrity-plays-games skepticism.
The moment landed perfectly because it felt authentic — a fan giving something genuinely valuable to someone who clearly means it when she says she loves the franchise. Navarrette's profile is rising fast: she's already confirmed a meeting with Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier about a potential MCU role, though nothing is confirmed yet. For now, at least one rare sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2 has found a very happy home.
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