Jenna Ortega will no longer star in 'Scream VII'. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter Ortega informed 'Scream' studio Spyglass months ago that she did not intend to return. This news comes a day after Melissa Barrera was dropped from 'Scream VII' following a series of social media posts amid the Israel-Hamas War.
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00:00 Jenna Ortega will not be returning as Tara Carpenter in Scream 7.
00:05 Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter Ortega informed Scream Studios' Spyglass months
00:08 ago that she did not intend to return to the franchise.
00:12 This news comes a day after Melissa Barrera was dropped from Scream 7 following a series
00:16 of social media posts amid the Israel-Hamas war.
00:19 Sources insist that Ortega's departure has nothing to do with Barrera's firing.
00:23 Barrera has made dozens of posts about the war in recent weeks.
00:26 She wrote in one post on Instagram Stories,
00:28 "Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp.
00:31 Cornering everyone together with nowhere to go, no electricity, no water.
00:36 People have learned nothing from our histories.
00:38 And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen.
00:41 This is genocide and ethnic cleansing."
00:43 A spokesperson for Spyglass, the company behind the Scream franchise, issued a statement that
00:47 read, "Spyglass's stance is unequivocally clear.
00:51 We have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including
00:55 false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion, or anything that flagrantly
01:00 crosses the line into hate speech."
01:02 THR has reached out to a rep for Barrera.
01:05 The actress starred as Sam Carpenter in the 2022 feature Scream, which helped revitalize
01:09 the franchise and earned $137.7 million globally.
01:14 She also starred in Scream 6, which was released in March of this year and made $168.9 million.
01:19 Filmmaker Christopher Landon is set to direct Scream 7.
01:23 Following the news of Barrera's firing on Tuesday, Landon wrote on social media, "This
01:26 is my statement," with a heartbreak emoji.
01:28 "Everything sucks.
01:30 Stop yelling.
01:31 This was not my decision to make."
01:32 He later deleted the post.
01:34 Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that Susan Sarandon had been dropped by talent agency
01:38 UTA following comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City on Nov. 17.
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