To be able to shoot Season 2 of Wednesday, Hit Netflix series, Jenna Ortega had to choose. So the actress has opted out of the upcoming film of the much-hyped horror franchise.
As fans learned in November 2023, the casting of the next installment of Scream will be shaken up significantly. first of all, Jenna Ortega will not participate in the next part of the saga scream. According to some American media, His participation in Season 2 of WednesdayBroadcast on Netflix, There will be a reason why the actress will not be returning for the seventh installment of the horror franchise. A departure which, according to the media Diversity, may have been discussed well before the actors’ strike that hit Hollywood last July. saga scream So Sam Carpenter loses his other key figures after firing Melissa Barrera, the interpreter.
Wednesday : Big change for Season 2 on Netflix
After a two-month strike, filming of the Netflix series may finally resume. And this is soon the case Wednesday, which should begin shooting in spring 2024. If the first season was shot in Romania, the production team chose to install its cameras in another European country: Ireland. In addition to Jenna Ortega, the season 2 cast includes actors Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair’s interpreter who you can find in the Netflix comedy, which she also has a big nod to in the series), Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin) and Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay). But must return Wednesday, The release date of which has not been announced yet. Netflix has made this new episode one of its priorities for 2024, and the platform is also working on a surprise spin-off project.
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scream : Star of franchise excluded from upcoming opus
Jenna Ortega won’t be the only star scream Not to star in the next film in the franchise. Melissa Barrera, who plays heroine Sam Carpenter, was fired. Screaming 7 Because his comments are considered “anti-Semitic”. “We have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism. We also do not tolerate incitement to hatred in any form, including lies about genocide, ethnic cleansing or the Holocaust, which even remotely resemble hate speech.“, production company Spyglass Media suggested in a press release. For its part, the director of the seventh opus scream, Christopher Landon, reacted to the news. “Here is my statement: Everything is bad. Stop yelling. It was not my decision“, he wrote on his X account (formerly Twitter).
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