Melissa Barrera torches ‘Scream 7’ cast as ‘scabs’ in brutal swipe after firing

Melissa Barrera shaded nan “Scream 7” formed aft she was fired from nan film for her support of Palestine.

A Variety interviewer asked nan character if she thought it was “scabby” that erstwhile formed members from nan franchise returned for nan latest movie aft her firing.

“Oh, 1 100 percent. I deliberation they each are,” she said successful nan question and reply published Wednesday. “And they person to unrecorded pinch that.”

Barrera, 35, added, “The only measurement they were capable to make that movie aft what happened was to nostalgia-bait arsenic overmuch arsenic possible.”

“Scream 7,” which came retired successful February, welcomed backmost aggregate franchise vets including Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley.

The movie is nan highest-grossing movie successful nan franchise, earning $215 cardinal globally — though Barrera doubts that statistic.

“I deliberation they lied astir nan numbers,” she told Variety. “I don’t deliberation it made that overmuch money.”

Page Six has reached retired to accumulation institution Spyglass Media and supplier Paramount Pictures for comment.

Barrera was fired from “Scream 7” successful November 2023 aft she posted definite sentiments astir the Israel-Hamas war, which the studio characterized arsenic antisemitic.

The pursuing day, her “Scream 5” and “Scream 6” co-star Jenna Ortega dropped retired of nan film, which Ortega later said “had thing to do pinch salary aliases scheduling” and “was each benignant of falling apart.” 

But Barrera insinuated that Ortega’s move wasn’t a show of support, telling Variety, “That’s not nan reality of things…”

Barrera explained that while she “got immoderate messages of support from group successful nan industry” aft her firing, location was “no action” taken.

“I had faith. I was like, ‘Someone is going to scope retired to maine and thief me. It’s conscionable a matter of time,” she said, while admitting she went done “ten torturous months of uncertainty, and nary work, and suffering” aft she was axed from nan film.

But Barrera said she still feels nan emotion from “Scream” fans who travel to spot her prima successful “Titanique” connected Broadway.

“At nan shape door, I motion ‘Scream’ things each night,” she shared. “People who emotion maine from those movies are coming to spot nan show, and they can’t ever return that distant from me.”

Barrera antecedently told Collider that she feels she’s “gotten closure” pinch her exit from nan franchise.

“I consciousness good. I did what I group retired to do,” she explained. “It was ever meant to beryllium 2 movies for me, ’cause that was my contract, and truthful everything is perfect.”