00:00Melissa Barrera says she's had a big awakening after being fired from the Scream franchise.
00:05Spyglass Media fired the actress from the Scream reboot after she posted to social media about the
00:11Israel-Gaza conflict, posts which they deemed were anti-Semitic. Speaking to the Associated Press at
00:16the Sundance Film Festival, the Your Monster star said that after the ordeal, she's had time to
00:21reflect on how her support of Palestinians and calls for a ceasefire in the region has helped
00:26her realize more about herself. Honestly, I think I finally am becoming who I'm supposed to be in
00:31life, and the last few months have been a big awakening of that. Barrera published multiple
00:36social media posts around the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, which described elements of
00:40Israel's response to Hamas and Gaza as genocide and ethnic cleansing. In November, it was announced
00:46that Barrera had been let go from the franchise. Spyglass said in a statement that it had zero
00:50tolerance for anti-Semitism or the insight of hate, including false references to genocide,
00:56ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion, and hate speech. In her own statement, the In the Heights
01:01actress said that she not only condemned anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, but prejudice against any group.
01:08Every person on this earth, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation,
01:14or socioeconomic status, deserves equal human rights, dignity, and, of course, freedom. The future of
01:20how Scream 7 will unfold remains unclear, as co-star Jenna Ortega and director Christopher Landon
01:26have both departed the franchise as well. For more on this story, hit to THR.com. And for the
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