Melissa Barrera fired from ‘Scream VII’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Melissa Barrera

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Melissa Barrera is no longer playing the lead role The seventh scream. The actor was dropped from the project following a series of social media posts in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas.

“Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp,” she wrote in an Instagram Stories post. “Trapping everyone together, with nowhere to go, no electricity, no water… people have learned nothing from our history. As with our history, people still silently watch everything that happens. “This is genocide and ethnic cleansing.”

Official spokesperson for Spyglass, the company behind Screaming A statement was issued after the initial publication of this article: “Spyglass’ position is unequivocally clear: We have no tolerance for anti-Semitism or incitement to hatred in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion, or anything Like this”. “It blatantly crosses the line and turns into hate speech.”

THR I reached out to a rep for Barrera, who has published dozens of posts about the war since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7.

Barrera helped revitalize the franchise by Screaming, the 2022 film that grossed $137.7 million globally and brought together generations of cast members for the series. Barrera’s Sam Carpenter was the hero of this film, and the older sister of Jenna Ortega’s Tera. Barrera also starred Sixth screamWhich was released in March and grossed $168.9 million at the global box office.

Happy death day Director Christopher Landon directs The seventh scream From the filmmakers of Radio Silence. Filming had not yet begun, and development was slow amid actors and writers’ strikes. Now, Spyglass is expected to recalibrate plans following Parreira’s sacking. Paramount distributed the final installments and is expected to return for the new film.

“Here’s my statement: 💔 Everything sucks. ‘Stop yelling,'” director Landon wrote on X Tuesday. “This was not the decision I made.”

Earlier on Tuesday, news emerged that talent agency UTA had fired actress Susan Sarandon following her comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City on November 17.

November 21: 5:16 p.m Updated to include data from Spyglass and Christopher Landon.