Melissa Barrera “A Changed Person” after Scream Exit

Almost a year after her departure from the Scream franchise, Melissa Barrera tells what the experience has taught her. In one conversation about her new film Your monster (in theaters now), Melissa told Brit + Co exclusively that she feels like a completely different person than she did last year.

After posting about the Palestinian and Israeli conflict in November 2023, Melissa was fired Scream 7 (production company Spyglass later said Variety in a statement, they believed her comments “crossed the line into hate speech.”)

Melissa Barrera talks about life after last year Scream controversy.
She says she is “grateful” that she “survived” the experience, “and that I am stronger for it.”
The actress also reveals that she is focusing on how to make the industry and the world “better and safer for everyone.”

Melissa Barrera and the cast of Scream 5

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“I definitely feel like a changed person,” says the In the heights actress tells B+C. “I definitely feel like my priorities are completely different than they were a year ago. I now see the world through different eyes, I see people through different eyes. I see the industry through different eyes, and I am so grateful for that. “

Although the experience – and the fact that it was so public – was difficult, Melissa says she came out better on the other side. “I’m so grateful for everything I’ve been through, even though it was very difficult. I’m so grateful that I lived it and that I survived it, and that I’m stronger for it,” she continues. “And knowing that I have a focus on what I want to continue doing, not just for me and my career, but also: how can I contribute to the industry and to the world to make it better and safer for everyone?”

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The end of the year brings a lot of reflection, whether you’re someone who thrives on journal prompts or prefer chatting with your best friend over a bottle of wine. But a viral Sundance interview from January in which Melissa Barrera says the Spyglass experience started to help her “Finally figuring out who I’m supposed to be,” proves that she has been thinking all year.

“Everyone thinks about, ‘What does the future hold? How can we make it better?’ And I’ve been thinking that for a year,” she says. “There are people who have been on this journey for a lot longer, and they’re the ones we need to thank for the fact that our world isn’t over right now, you know? They are the ones who will continue to make changes for the better and fight for better things for all of us.”

Melissa Barerra at the Lower East Side Film Festival wearing baby blue

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After Melissa Barrera’s departure from Screambroke the news that Jenna Ortega would not return for the seventh episode. Melissa called Jenna a “good egg” in a January interview Rolling stoneand gave Brit + Co some insight into it that viral video of the sisters on screen laughing during Scream 6 Busy.

“I was so sick during the whole press,” she says. “We were laughing because I started choking on my cough, so it was hilarious – or I started laughing and I started coughing and then I couldn’t stop. So yeah, we laughed a lot during that press round because I was as sick as a dog.”

Okay, I need these two in a sister comedy ASAP.

You can zee Melissa Barrera in Your monster now, and look Scream And Scream 6 on Paramount+.