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," the actress says

Jenna Ortega is revealing the real reason she left Scream 7 amid the fallout from Melissa Barrera’s firing from the franchise. In a new interview, the Wednesday star opened up about what led to her exit from the film after her co-star Barrera was cut from the movie following her comments on the Israel-Hamas war.

In November 2023, the rebooted Scream franchise saw its future slip away like the light draining from the eyes of a Ghostface victim. After Melissa Barrera’s social media posts about Palestine were dubbed “hate speech,