Jenna Ortega Shares a Knife-Slim Little bit of Perception Into Her Scream Exit

Jenna Ortega’s star has lengthy since elevated past the Scream series—she has Wednesday season two arising, co-starred in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and is in present A24 launch Dying of a Unicorn, to call extra credit on her ever-growing resume. However her exit from the popular slasher franchise got here at such a fraught second, not longer after co-star Melissa Barrera was fired for social media posts in help of Palestine, made individuals surprise precisely what occurred behind the scenes.

On the time, there was hypothesis that Ortega’s Wednesday filming schedule created a battle with the possible Scream 7, although it was understood there’d be an extended delay between elements six and 7 than there’d been between 5 (which launched January 2022) and 6 (March 2023). The directing group of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett had handed the reins over to Christopher Landon, who ended up departing the project himself after Ortega left.

OG Scream head Kevin Williamson come aboard final 12 months—Scream 7 ought to lastly hit theaters in February 2026—and has been busily including former Ghostfaces and different previous characters into the solid. Although Ortega’s character survived Scream VI, and regardless of the altering of the guard with Williamson directing, the star isn’t coming again. In a brand new interview with the Cut, she addressed her departure, providing just a few extra particulars.

“It had nothing to do with pay or scheduling,” Ortega mentioned, debunking the sooner Wednesday scheduling conflicts story. It had extra to do with Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett shifting on from the following Scream entry—and the Barrera controversy.

“The Melissa stuff was occurring, and it was all type of falling aside. If Scream VII wasn’t going to be with that group of administrators and people individuals I fell in love with, then it didn’t appear to be the appropriate transfer for me in my profession on the time.”

The Minimize article underlines simply how busy Ortega is even with none extra Scream on her plate, together with her Netflix collection returning and turns in function movies, together with Hurry Up Tomorrow with the Weeknd, Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Solar, and Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist. Learn extra of the interview here.

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