Melissa Barrera Stars in the First Look of ‘Your Monster’ After ‘Scream’ Exit
Melissa Barrera
Courtesy of the Sundance Institute/Will StoneMelissa Barrera is still booked and busy despite her abrupt departure from the seventh film in the film Scream franchise.
Sundance Film Festival offered the first glimpse of the 33-year-old’s next project on Wednesday, December 6, when the lineup for the 40th annual event was announced. The horror comedy Your Monster will premiere at the festival in January 2024, and the newly revealed stills hint at a unique love story.
Your Monster is based on Caroline Lindy‘s short film of the same name and follows a young woman who falls in love with a strange creature she discovers in her closet. Lindy directed, wrote and produced the spooky rom-com. Besides Barrera, Your Monster‘s cast consists of Tommy Dewey, Meghann Fahy, Edmund Donovan And Kayla Foster.
Last month, news broke that Barrera had been fired Scream VII for her comments on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. Variety reported on November 21 that Barrera reposted content on social media accusing Israel of “genocide and ethnic cleansing” and distorting “the Holocaust to boost Israel’s arms industry,” which ultimately led to her being kicked out of the project was dismissed.
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Spyglass Media Group, the production company behind the latest batch Scream films, then denied that Barrera’s pro-Palestine comments prompted her to leave.
“Spyglass’ position is unequivocally clear: we have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism or incitement to hatred in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, distortion of the Holocaust, or anything that blatantly crosses the line into hate speech ,” the company statement said. .
Barrera, who played Sam Carpenter in the slasher franchise, publicly addressed the situation a day later via her Instagram Story, writing: “First and foremost, I condemn anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. I condemn any form of hatred and prejudice against any group of people.”
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In her statement on social media, Barrera noted that she felt a “responsibility” to speak out.
“As a Latina, a proud Mexicana, I feel a responsibility to have a platform that gives me the privilege of being heard, and that is why I have tried to use it to raise awareness about issues I care about and care about to lend my voice to those in need,” she continued. “Every person on this earth – regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or socio-economic status – deserves equal human rights, dignity and, of course, freedom.”
Deadline reported this later Jenna Ortega will not reprise her role as Tara Carpenter due to her filming schedule for Season 2 of Netflix’s Wednesday.
In spite of the Scream saga, Barrera’s career continues to take off. She has lined up an untitled Universal Monsters film in collaboration with Radio Silence Productions, in collaboration with filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez And Chad Villella, who previously directed Barrera in two Scream movies.