Jenna Ortega Sounds Off on ‘PC’ Showbiz After ‘Scream’ Mess
Jenna Ortega was tight lipped after her Scream co-star Melissa Barrera was canned for her pro-Palestine social media posts last year, but the young star has finally shared her thoughts on that matter and Hollywood’s “political correctness” in a new interview with Vanity Fair.
“Everybody wants to be politically correct,” Ortega told the magazine in reference to the situation, “but I feel like, in doing that, we lose a lot of our humanity and integrity, because it lacks honesty.” Soon after Barrera’s firing from subsequent installments of Scream by production company Spyglass Media Group, Ortega herself left the franchise—at the time, she said, due to scheduling conflicts with Netflix’s Wednesday—but she’s expressed support for Barrera throughout and after the ordeal.
Barrera starred in 2022’s Scream and the following year’s Scream VI, along with Ortega and OG cast members Courtney Cox and David Arquette. She was set to appear in more of the films before she started posting about the Israel-Gaza War, including a message that read, “Cornering everyone together, with no where to go, no electricity no water … People have learnt nothing from our histories. And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING.”