Actress, who played the protagonist Sam Carpenter, was removed from the franchise for pro-Palestinian comments
After the announcement that Melissa Barrera would have been fired from Scream 7 for comments about the war between Israel and Palestine, fans used social media to protest the decision and threatened to boycott the next chapter of the franchise slasher if the actress is not reinstated to the production’s cast.
“The rest of the cast of Scream 7 has the chance to have the coolest attitude of recent times and abandon the project in solidarity”he wrote William GoodmanX user. “I love the franchise PanicI’ve been a fan since I was a teenager, but after that joke they did with Melissa Barrera I just want Scream 7 sink on the flop. The boycott comes”declared the internet user Amandaalong with the hashtag “Justice for Melissa Barrera” (“Justice for Melissa Barrera”, in Portuguese). Check out more publications:
the rest of the scream 7 cast has the chance to do the coolest shit in recent memory and walk straight off that project in solidarity
—William Goodman (@goodmanw) November 21, 2023
I love the Pânico franchise, I’ve been a fan since I was a teenager, but after this joke they did with Melissa Barrera I just want Pânico 7 to sink on the flop. The boycott comes#justiceformelissabarerra
— – Amanda | SUPER★ (@mandy_lane25) November 22, 2023
Firstly, without Melissa the panic 7 plot (in addition to the boycott that will happen) ends
So the ones who lose out are you— Maria (@mfvampire) November 21, 2023
That’s right, the franchise came back from the ashes with films in which she was coincidentally the main one and with the plot of being the daughter of the first ghostface. Go with God panic 7 because the boycott will come with force https://t.co/VG8brwpoqV
— A. (@Byditah) November 22, 2023
That’s it folks, as much as I like it, the boycott of the panic franchise is inevitable. https://t.co/4mRSa9YKaA
— duda ⁷ (@freefallmooncit) November 21, 2023
and the panic 7 boycott has already begun pic.twitter.com/MxjHyvuq6w
— luc 10/12 (@earpwallows) November 21, 2023
According to the portal One Take Newsthe actress, who played Sam Carpenterdaughter of Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and current final girl from the franchise, she was fired for using her social media to show support for Palestine in the midst of the conflict.
“I come from a colonized country”wrote the actress, adding the emoji of a Mexican flag, in reference to his home country. “Palestine will be free! They tried to bury us, [mas] Little did they know we were seeds”continued Barrera.
“Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp”he said in another publication. “Trapping everyone together, with nowhere to go, no electricity, no water… People haven’t learned anything from our history. And just like our stories, people still silently watch everything happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE AND CLEANING ETHNIC”finished Barrera.
On your social networks, Christopher Landoncast to direct Scream 7commented on the actress’s dismissal from the franchise:“This is my statement: 💔. Everything sucks. Stop yelling. That wasn’t my decision.”he wrote on X. However, some time later, the filmmaker deleted the publication and spoke no more about the subject.
There is still little information about the seventh film of Panicbut Melissa Barrera was one of the names confirmed to return in the new chapter of the story, as well as Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown It is Mason Goodingwho form the main quartet of survivors of the new generation.
Source: Rollingstone
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