Ortega On “Scream 7” Exit, Abrams Project

Hot off her success with “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” late last year, actress Jenna Ortega returned to cinemas with A24’s “Death of A Unicorn” and will shortly be seen in The Weeknd’s thriller “Hurry Up Tomorrow”.

The actress is one of the most in-demand out there right now with multiple film projects on the way, more in the works, along with a second season of “Wednesday” having already been shot and dropping on streaming giant Netflix sometime later this year.

One film you won’t be seeing her in though is “Scream 7”. After appearing in the fifth and sixth installments, the actress opted out of returning at a time when the project seemed to be falling apart over at Spyglass.

In a new interview with The Cut, Ortega confirms her exit “had nothing to do with pay or scheduling” around her “Wednesday” commitments as trade reports originally suggested.

Rather, Ortega was well aware the project was collapsing in real time – from the exit of directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (aka Radio Silence), to the firing of her onscreen sister Melissa Barrera over tweeting a message of peace and nonviolence:

“The Melissa stuff was happening, and it was all kind of falling apart. If ‘Scream 7’ wasn’t going to be with that team of directors and those people I fell in love with, then it didn’t seem like the right move for me in my career at the time.”

In the same interview, Ortega confirmed she does have a role alongside Glen Powell , Emma Mackey and Samuel L. Jackson. in J.J. Abrams‘ untitled upcoming film at Warner Bros. Pictures.

She calls it “an original J.J. script with some fantasy elements”. Shooting on that will begin shortly in London.

Finally she also reflected on some past interview comments that she got in hot water over, namely that she sometimes changed the scripts “Wednesday” because they didn’t make sense to the character.

People took umbrage with that, saying it was disrespectful of the writers. She says she’s now learned from the experience: “I used my words really poorly. All I had to do was say ‘improvised’. You live and you learn.”

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