{"id":321641,"date":"2026-02-28T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321641\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:21:08","slug":"why-melissa-barrera-jenna-ortega-arent-in-scream-7-how-the-movie-explains-their-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321641\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Melissa Barrera &#038; Jenna Ortega Aren&#8217;t in &#8216;Scream 7&#8217; &#038; How the Movie Explains Their Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27047903\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scream 7<\/a> is now playing in theaters and fans have been quick to notice the absence of Carpenter sisters <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4574440\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Barrera<\/a> and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4911194\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Ortega<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Og final girl <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000117\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neve Campbell<\/a> has returned to reprise her role of Sidney Prescott, there are a lot of people who miss Sam and Tara since they were the stars of both <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11245972\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scream 5<\/a> and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt17663992\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scream 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Melissa was fired in 2023 over social media posts she made about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Not long after, Jenna exited the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of taking place in New York again, the story moves to a small town in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>While Jenna and Melissa did not return,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scream 7 is now playing in theaters and fans have been quick to notice the absence of Carpenter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56284,56285,56283,93,1043,3211,61,60,270,56281,56286,9315,56282,282],"class_list":["post-321641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-attori","tag-attrici","tag-celebrita","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-hollywood","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-notizie","tag-registi","tag-star","tag-televisione","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}