Melissa Barrera continues to make use of her social media platform to face up for her beliefs. On Christmas Eve, the previous Scream star shared a message in favor of Palestine and reminded her followers of the historical past of the celebration tonight.
“I hope this Christmas feels… bizarre,” Barrera shared on her Instagram Tales. “I hope you’ll be able to’t ignore the truth that you’re celebrating the beginning of a kid who was persecuted and focused and his dad and mom pressured to flee to Egypt whereas proper now hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the precise a part of the world are being persecuted and focused and compelled to flee their properties whereas they’re indiscriminately and relentlessly bombed.”
She ended the assertion with, “Merry Xmas.”
Melissa Barrera’s Christmas message on Instagram Tales
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Barrera’s message got here a day after Scream 7 director Christopher Landon confirmed he had relinquished his duties on the movie following the firing of Barrera and the exit of Jenna Ortega.
“I assume now could be pretty much as good a time as any to announce I formally exited Scream 7 weeks in the past,” Landon shared on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter. “It will disappoint some and delight others. It was a dream job that changed into a nightmare. And my coronary heart did break for everybody concerned. Everybody. But it surely’s time to maneuver on.”
He continued, “I’ve nothing extra so as to add to the dialog aside from I hope Wes’ legacy thrives and lifts above the din of a divided world. What he and Kevin created is one thing superb and I used to be honored to have even the briefest second basking of their glow.”
Barrera was fired from the movie attributable to her social media posts on the Israel-Hamas battle.
“Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We now have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any type, together with false references to genocide, ethnic cleaning, Holocaust distortion or something that flagrantly crosses the road into hate speech,” Spyglass mentioned in an announcement after Barrera was let go from Scream 7.
