Melissa Barrera isn’t screaming at Scream—properly, at the very least publicly. “I’m simply so grateful on what I received to infuse within the franchise, and that’s one thing I’ll be pleased with without end,” the Hold Respiration actress informed Deadline through the Sundance pageant’s opening night time on Thursday.
Regardless of starring in two extraordinarily profitable movies for the franchise, Barrera was fired Thanksgiving weekend after posting that the Israel-Hamas struggle was “GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING” on social media. “We’ve got zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any type, together with false references to genocide, ethnic cleaning, Holocaust distortion or something that flagrantly crosses the road into hate speech,” producing studio Spyglass stated in an announcement on the time. In a subsequent assertion, Barrera responded: “I’ll proceed to talk out for those who want it most and proceed to advocate for peace and security, for human rights and freedom. Silence will not be an choice for me.”
Within the ensuing weeks, the franchise additionally misplaced its different main star, Jenna Ortega, in addition to director Christopher Landon, who had signed on to direct Ghostface’s seventh outing. Whereas Ortega had reportedly left the manufacturing months prior attributable to a wage dispute (paying homage to authentic star Neve Campbell’s exit in 2022), Landon appears to have departed on account of this entire blow up. “It was a dream job that was a nightmare,” he wrote in a submit on Twitter/X on the time. “And my coronary heart did break for everybody concerned.”
Regardless of all of it, Barrera appears to have efficiently weathered the storm. In continuation of her scream queen legacy, the actress debuted a brand new horror movie, Your Monster from first-time director Caroline Lindy, at Sundance final night time and has one other, Abigail, coming this spring. She’s additionally nonetheless shut together with her Scream cast-mates, referring to them as “household for all times” on the purple carpet.
“If we’re ever within the neighborhood of one another, we all the time discover one another and that’s what occurred at that occasion,” she defined, referring to a candy reunion photograph she posted on Instagram earlier this week. “After we discover one another, we simply need to spend the night time with one another, and nothing is ever going to vary that.”
