Melissa Barrera mentioned in an interview with The Independent that “there have been instances the place I felt like my life was over” after she was fired from the “Scream” franchise one 12 months in the past attributable to social media posts about Palestine that Spyglass, the studio behind the horror franchise, deemed antisemitic.
“It was quiet for, like, 10 months,” Barrera mentioned whereas discussing how performing work roughly disappeared for her after she was fired. “I used to be nonetheless getting affords for small issues right here and there – I’m not going to lie and say there was nothing – however [the message] was, like, ‘Oh, she most likely doesn’t have work, she’ll say sure to something’.”
Barrera performed Sam Carpenter, the daughter of Billy Loomis, in 2022’s “Scream” and 2023’s “Scream 6,” the latter of which set a franchise field workplace file with $108 million on the home field workplace. She was all set to proceed enjoying Sam in “Scream 7” till her abrupt firing, however she refuses to let that call taint her reminiscences of “Scream.”
“They gave me quite a bit in my profession,” Barrera mentioned. “I made actually good mates. I’ve such loyal followers from these films that are actually watching the remainder of the stuff that I do.”
Per The Independent: “However she admits that there are drawbacks. At fan conventions, as an illustration, parades of ‘Scream’ devotees are vulnerable to sympathetically allude to the controversy between autograph signings, or asking how she’s doing.”
“Or they’re like, ‘What they did to you is so tousled, I’m so sorry that occurred!’” Barrera added. “And it’s one thing, I believe, that’s by no means going to finish. As a result of the franchise is rarely going to finish. So whereas I nonetheless have a lot love for [those movies], the reminders of that very bitter second make it somewhat bit bizarre.”
Whereas affords stopped coming in for essentially the most half after the “Scream” firing, Barrera is now lastly getting again to work. She’s presently filming a brand new espionage thriller collection for Peacock alongside Simu Liu that she calls “precisely what I wanted to ease myself again into the business and do one thing enjoyable that’s not going to destroy me emotionally.”
“It felt like I had been invisible, after which abruptly, there was a swap that made me seen once more,” she added. “I really feel higher. I used to be caught within the sand dunes for some time, and now I really feel like my ft are shifting, I’ve an oxygen tank, and I’m, like… going up.”
Head over to The Independent’s website to read Barrera’s latest profile in its entirety.
