Mexican actor Melissa Barrera, who portrayed Sam Carpenter in the ‘Scream’ franchise, has been dropped from the next film, after her pro-Palestine posts against Israel.
As per the reports from foreign-based entertainment outlets, Spyglass Media has fired actor Melissa Barrera from the seventh installment of the slasher franchise, ‘Scream VII’, after a series of social media posts regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict.
In her Instagram stories earlier this month, Barrera extended her support towards the people of Palestine and criticized the attacks from Israel, calling it ‘genocide and ethnic cleansing.’
‘Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp,’ she had written in one of her text stories.
Barrera added, ‘Cornering everyone together, with nowhere to go, no electricity, no water… People have learnt nothing from our histories. And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING.’
Following the posts, which Spyglass said are ‘antisemitic’, the ‘Vida’ actor was removed from the next film of the franchise, after essaying Sam Carpenter in the last two titles.
‘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,’ read the statement from the production company’s rep on the matter.
Director Christopher Landon, of the upcoming movie, also addressed her removal in a now-deleted post: ‘This is my statement: Everything sucks. Stop yelling. This was not my decision to make.’
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Melissa Barrera, who played Sam Carpenter in the ‘Scream’ movies, has been dropped from the next film after posting pro-Palestine messages on social media. Spyglass Media, the production company, said her posts were antisemitic and showed zero tolerance for hate speech. Director Christopher Landon commented on her removal in a deleted post.
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