{"id":160585,"date":"2025-04-07T13:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/jenna-ortega-reveals-the-real-reason-why-she-exited-scream-franchise\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:55:16","slug":"jenna-ortega-reveals-the-real-reason-why-she-exited-scream-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/jenna-ortega-reveals-the-real-reason-why-she-exited-scream-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Ortega Reveals the Real Reason Why She Exited \u2018Scream\u2019 Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jenna-ortega\/\" title=\"Jenna Ortega\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jenna Ortega<\/strong><\/a> revealed the real reason why she exited the <strong><em>Scream<\/em><\/strong> franchise.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know, in November of 2023, it was announced that <strong>Jenna <\/strong>would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/11\/22\/jenna-ortega-is-not-returning-for-scream-7-the-reason-is-unrelated-to-melissa-barerras-firing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not reprise her role in the film\u2019s seventh movie,<\/a> where she portrayed Tara Carpenter. The timing of the announcement came just after her co-star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/melissa-barrera\/\" title=\"Melissa Barrera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Melissa Barrera<\/strong><\/a>, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/11\/21\/melissa-barrera-dropped-from-scream-7-for-israel-palestine-posts-on-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">let go from the seventh film<\/a> due to social media postings about Israel-Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Scream VI<\/em> directors, <strong>Tyler Gillett<\/strong> and <strong>Matt Bettinelli-Olpin,<\/strong> also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/08\/02\/scream-7-director-shake-up-reason-why-revealed-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had stepped away.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2102291\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/jenna-ortega-wednesday-season-2-death-of-a-unicorn-interview.html\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/jenna-ortega-wednesday-season-2-death-of-a-unicorn-interview.html&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cut<\/a>, <strong>Jenna <\/strong>explained, \u201cIt had nothing to do with pay or scheduling. It was all kind of falling apart. If <em>Scream VII<\/em> wasn\u2019t going to be with that team of directors and those people I fell in love with, then it didn\u2019t seem like the right move for me in my career at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/04\/07\/jenna-ortega-reveals-the-real-reason-why-she-exited-scream-franchise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Ortega revealed the real reason why she exited the Scream franchise. If you don\u2019t know, in November of 2023, it was announced that Jenna would not reprise her role in the film\u2019s seventh movie, where she portrayed Tara Carpenter. The timing of the announcement came just after her co-star, Melissa Barrera, was let go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}