UPDATE (11/23/23, 1:30 p.m. ET): A day after she was fired from Scream 7, Melissa launched an announcement on her Instagram Story. “At first I condemn Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,” her assertion started. “I condemn hate and prejudice of any sort towards any group of individuals. As a Latina, a proud Mexicana, I really feel the duty of getting a platform that enables me the privilege of being heard, and due to this fact I’ve tried to make use of it to boost consciousness about points I care about and to lend my voice to these in want.”

She added, “Each particular person on this earth — no matter faith, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or socio-economic standing — deserves equal human rights, dignity and, after all, freedom. I imagine a gaggle of individuals are NOT their management, and that no governing physique needs to be above criticism. I pray day and night time for no extra deaths, for no extra violence, and for peaceable co-existence. I’ll proceed to talk out for people who want it most and proceed to advocate for peace and security, for human rights and freedom. Silence isn’t an possibility for me.”

ORIGINAL STORY: Melissa Barrera has reportedly been fired from the upcoming Scream franchise installment, Scream VII, after sharing a number of social media posts concerning the ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas. The 33-year-old actress was dropped from the mission on November 21, in response to The Hollywood Reporter.

The outlet reported that one in all Barrera’s current Instagram Tales included a message that learn, “Gaza is at the moment being handled like a focus camp. Cornering everybody collectively, with no the place to go, no electrical energy no water … Individuals have learnt nothing from our histories. And similar to our histories, individuals are nonetheless silently watching all of it occur. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING.”

Barrera starred in 2022’s Scream and 2023’s Scream VI because the lead character, Samantha Carpenter, alongside co-star and Wednesday actress, Jenna Ortega. The 2 portrayed sisters and needed to fend off Ghostface within the two movies. Unique franchise heroine Neve Campbell left Scream VI attributable to a wage dispute with the studio, and Barrera and Ortega’s characters took the lead alongside Courteney Cox.

Spyglass — the corporate behind the movie — launched an announcement to Selection explaining their choice to chop ties with Barrera. The outlet famous that she was not fired for exhibiting assist for Palestine, however fairly, that her social media posts had been interpreted as antisemitic.

“Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We’ve got zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any kind, together with false references to genocide, ethnic cleaning, Holocaust distortion or something that flagrantly crosses the road into hate speech,” a Spyglass spokesperson mentioned.

Scream VI ended with Barrera and Ortega’s characters defeating the three villains who had been behind the Ghostface masks — their roommate, Quinn, their pal Ethan, and Detective Bailey. Since Samantha’s late father is Billy Loomis — the unique Ghostface — followers watched her character expertise delusions, the place she would see and listen to him urge her to embrace her violent facet.

On the finish of the movie, followers noticed Sam holding her late father’s precise masks that he used within the Nineteen Nineties. Nevertheless, she drops it and walks away with Tara into the gap following the carnage they only confronted.

Scream was not Barrera’s breakout position within the enterprise, but it surely turned one in all her most noteworthy performances. She beforehand starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s movie adaptation of his Broadway play, Within the Heights, enjoying the character Vanessa.