{"id":238760,"date":"2026-05-06T23:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/variety-interviews-melissa-barrera\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:29:39","slug":"variety-interviews-melissa-barrera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/variety-interviews-melissa-barrera\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety Interviews Melissa Barrera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Melissa Barrera claims Paramount &#8220;lied about the numbers&#8221; for &#8220;Scream 7&#8221; and says &#8220;I don\u2019t think it made that much money.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>She believes the actors who appeared in &#8220;Scream 7&#8221; after she was fired crossed a picket line: &#8220;They have to live with that. The only way they were able to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PvbDNgZaqt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PvbDNgZaqt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2052049318710755715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2052049318710755715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you forgot: Barrera got fired from the Scream franchise over her pro Palestine social media posts<\/p>\n<p>Her answers that is making the headline is that she believes Paramount is lying about the Scream 7 box office (the movie made $214 million world wide)<\/p>\n<p>also:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; she is doing a play on Broadway rn and is very happy with it<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; she stands by her pro Palestine posts<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; she implies that Jenna Ortega did not drop out from Scream 7 in support of her (<i>but for other reasons?<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Director Boots Riley reached out to her to show his support and offered her a role in his movie \u201cI Love Boosters\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; she notes that only female actresses are having their careers impacted by their Palestine support, male actors doing the same are doing just fine<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; she agress with interviewer Marlow Stern that the actors who returned to Scream 7 are scabs that crossed a picket line <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132306701.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Barrera claims Paramount &#8220;lied about the numbers&#8221; for &#8220;Scream 7&#8221; and says &#8220;I don\u2019t think it made that much money.&#8221; She believes the actors who appeared in &#8220;Scream 7&#8221; after she was fired crossed a picket line: &#8220;They have to live with that. The only way they were able to\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/PvbDNgZaqt \u2014 Variety (@Variety) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238760","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=238760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}