Jenna Ortega, who played a starring role in the previous two Scream movies, will no longer appear in the seventh installment of the slasher franchise, Scream.
According to Deadline, Ortega's exit is due to a scheduling conflict with the second season of her Netflix series Wednesday and was discussed months ago, before the recently resolved actors' strike.
News of Ortega's departure comes a day after Melissa Barrera, who played Ortega's onscreen sister, was fired from Scream VII over a series of social media posts about the Israel-Hamas war that Spyglass deemed "hate speech."
Ortega and Barrera starred as sisters Tara and Sam Carpenter in 2022's Scream and this year's Scream VI, injecting new life into the long-running horror franchise.
The latest installment earned $108 million at the domestic box office and another $60 million in international territories.
"Scream VII" is being directed by Happy Death Day and Freaky filmmaker Christopher Landon, who appeared to address Barrera's firing on social media.
"This is my statement," he wrote Tuesday. "Everything sucks. Stop yelling. This was not my decision to make." The post was deleted soon after.
The Scream franchise has lost main cast members before. Most recently, franchise mainstay Neve Campbell did not return for "Scream VI" due to a salary dispute.
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