Melissa Barrera Dropped From ‘Scream VII’ After Social Media Posts Amid Israel-Hamas War
Melissa Barrera Dropped From ‘Scream VII’ After Social Media Posts Amid Israel-Hamas War
She led both 2022's 'Scream' and the sixth installment, released earlier this year.
This is gonna be so fucking obnoxious.
It is worth noting that other people in the movie, including Ortega, have been very vocally pro Palestinian.
The difference is that Barrera extended this to some nasty dog whistles ("I will let you deduce that" is a common "Jews run the world" dog whistle, especially after she was rightfully blunt about the imperialism and genocide).
Of course, the production company fucked up massively in their press statement because of course
Like almost every aspect of this, both sides can be in the wrong
the production company fucked up massively in their press statement
They didn't fuck anything up, they are very clearly anti-Palestinian.
including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing
If you don't want to call it genocide or ethnic cleansing, no one is making you, but both of those things are not controversial to call this 'war', outside of very pro-Israel circles. To prohibit employees from calling it that is taking Israel's side, not remaining neutral.
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The actor was dropped from the project after a series of social media posts in the wake of the Israel-Hamas War.
A spokesperson for Spyglass, the company behind the Scream franchise, issued a statement after the initial publication of this article: “Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.”
THR has reached out to a rep for Barrera, who has made dozens of posts about the war since Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7.
Barrera’s Sam Carpenter was the lead of that film, and the older sister of Jenna Ortega’s Tera.
Barrera also starred in Scream VI, which was released in March and topped $168.9 million at the global box office.
Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that actor Susan Sarandon had been dropped by talent agency UTA following comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City on Nov. 17.
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