Jenna Ortega has lastly spoken up about her departure from “Scream VII.”
In a latest interview with The Lower, the “Death of a Unicorn” star admitted that her determination to depart the slasher franchise “had nothing to do with pay or scheduling. The Melissa stuff was happening, and it was all kind of falling apart.”
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In November 2023, Spyglass Media Group, the manufacturing firm behind the movies, fired Melissa Barrera after the actor made a sequence of social media posts surrounding the Israel-Hamas battle.
Barrera was accused of anti-Semitism, a declare she refuted in an April 2024 interview with The Instances.
“It wasn’t easy to be labeled as something so horrible when I knew that wasn’t the case,” the Mexican-born actress mentioned on the time. “I did have opportunities taken away from me. But I always trusted God, trusted that everything was going to work out for me.”
A day after Barrera was fired, Ortega introduced that she was additionally leaving the manufacturing. On the time, Deadline reported that Ortega’s departure was due to a scheduling battle with capturing the second season of the Netflix hit present “Wednesday.”
A month after each main stars left the franchise, director Christopher Landon, who was initially slated to direct “Scream VII,” introduced his resignation from the venture.
Ghostface and Jenna Ortega in 2022’s “Scream.”
(Brownie Harris / Paramount Photos / Spyglass Media Group)
“I guess now is as good a time as any to announce I formally exited Scream 7 weeks ago,” Landon mentioned in a submit on X. “This will disappoint some and delight others. It was a dream job that turned into a nightmare. And my heart did break for everyone involved. Everyone. But it’s time to move on.”
“If ‘Scream VII’ wasn’t going to be with that team of directors and those people I fell in love with, then it didn’t seem like the right move for me in my career at the time,” Ortega instructed The Lower.
The “Scream” sequence dates again to the 1996 authentic, directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson.
In March 2024, the screenwriter declared in an Instagram submit that he shall be taking up as director of “Scream VII” and shall be bringing again the unique “Scream” actress Neve Campbell to play Sidney Prescott.
“It’s been nearly 30 years since my very first script, Scream, was directed by the legendary Wes Craven,” Williamson wrote in an Instagram submit. “I never would have predicted what it would become. Or that I would be directing the seventh installment of the franchise. I am overcome with gratitude and excitement, and I can’t wait to take this journey with Neve and the entire Scream family as we bring back Sidney Prescott in the next chapter of the Scream franchise.”
Instances characteristic author Mark Olsen, Quick Break reporter Summer time Lin and former De Los employees author Alejandra Molina contributed to this report.
