Actress Melissa Barrera has been fired from the horror series Scream for standing with the Palestinian people and condemning the Zionist occupation. Spyglass Entertainment announced her dismissal on the grounds of "antisemitism" and wrongly accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing. In response to her expulsion, many Hollywood artists expressed support for her, including actor John Cusack, who wrote on Twitter, "It's insane to fire this artist for speaking the truth." Actress Rowan Blanchard said that every actor or person that works in Hollywood and speaks about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 2018 has been warned or faced consequences, calling it a "very wicked thing that people in power are controlling." Meanwhile, actress Jenna Ortega voluntarily withdrew from the show without specifying her reasons, leading to speculation that she did so to support Barrera, who played her sister in the fifth and sixth parts.