Ex-‘Scream’ star Melissa Barrera tears up over firing and reveals Jenna Ortega’s reaction: ‘It’s just bad’

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screaming into the void. Melissa Barrera was fired from the rebooted “Scream” franchise months ago, but the fallout is still difficult to process of her. “It’s definitely hard, because I was just in such a cloudy state of mind, but I was very fortunate,” Barrera, 33, told The Hollywood Reporter through tears in an interview published on Thursday. “I had a lot of support from the people around me: my team and specifically my publicists — they just carried me.”The actress was let go after posting pro-Palestine sentiments on her Instagram after Hamas’ unprovoked attack on Oct.

7.“None of this makes me happy,” Barrera added. “It was just all sad because I really, deeply care about the franchise. It’s just bad that it had to happen like that.”“Scream” co-director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin praised the star’s resilience to the outlet. “Melissa is incredibly strong,” Bettinelli-Olpin, 46, said. “You see it in her performances.

When you’re friends with her, you feel it in just being with her.”Bettinelli-Olpin directed the Mexican native 2022’s “Scream,” 2023’s “Scream VI” and this year’s “Abigail.”The actress was let go from the rebooted slasher franchise after Spyglass Media said that her Instagram activity had “been perceived as anti-Semitic.”“I too come from a colonized country,” the “In The Heights” star posted in a now-deleted Instagram Story along with a Mexican flag shortly after the attacks. “Palestine WILL be free,” she added. “They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.” In another post, she wrote: “At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude.”“Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp.