Dermot Mulroney is ‘not surprised’ Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega exited ‘Scream’ franchise

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his “Scream” co-stars Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega exiting the franchise.“I’m not surprised they didn’t come back,” Mulroney, 61, exclusively told The Post while promoting his latest project, “Depravity.”Barrera, 34, was fired from the horror movie films due to her social media posts about the Israel-Hamas war.“I too come from a colonized country,” she wrote beside a Mexican flag logo in October 2023. “Palestine WILL be free.

They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds. At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude.”The following month, it was reported that Ortega, 22, dropped out of “Scream 7” due to scheduling conflicts with Netflix’s Season 2 of “Wednesday.”The actors played sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter, respectively, in “Scream” (2022) and “Scream VI” (2023).

In November 2023, “Scream 7” director Christopher Landon briefly reacted to the casting shake-up via X, writing: “Everything sucks.

Stop yelling. This was not my decision to make.” Lead star Neve Campbell opted out of the 2023 flick over salary negotiations, but will return for the next installment. “‘Scream’ has had a lot of ups and downs since since ‘Scream 7’ and how the company treated Melissa Barrera and then flip side, Nev’s back in her character Sidney Prescott,” Mulroney told The Post.“So those ‘Scream’ people who have rode out all that’s gone on — not just in the last couple of years, but for the last 25 years with this storyline.