Overview
- In a Wednesday Variety interview, Barrera criticized Spyglass and labeled returning Scream 7 actors “scabs,” a term for people who cross a labor picket line.
- She agreed with the interviewer that Scream 7 “sucked” and alleged without evidence that Paramount and Spyglass inflated the film’s grosses.
- Official tallies report a franchise‑record global opening of about $97 million and roughly $200–215 million worldwide to date, and the studio has not revised those figures.
- Barrera was fired in 2023 over social posts critical of Israel, with Spyglass citing zero tolerance for antisemitism, after which the director and Jenna Ortega left and the film was reworked around legacy star Neve Campbell.
- She says the fallout left her without work for ten months until filmmaker Boots Riley offered her a role, describing the period as “torturous” despite ongoing support from fans at her Broadway show.