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Melissa Barrera feels sense of closure with Scream character despite firing. The In the Heights actress, who starred as Sam Carpenter in the fifth and sixth Scream films, was fired from Scream VII in November after the studio deemed some of her pro-Palestine social media posts to be antisemitic. Barrera shared on Collider’s Ladies Night podcast that while she won't get to complete Sam's story with the seventh instalment, Barrera feels a sense of closure with her character's arc. “I feel I've gotten closure, yeah, my head is clear. I feel like the ending of (Scream) 6 was a very good ending and so I don't feel like, 'Urgh, I got left in the middle of a (cliffhanger).’ "I think the fans were wanting a third movie to kind of continue that arc and apparently the plan was a trilogy, even though I was only contracted for two movies, so I did my two movies and I'm fine. I'm good with that. I got two, that's more than most people get.” The Abigail actress added that there is no use focusing on what has already happened so she is "already on the next chapter" of her career. ”You can't harp on things, you've gotta move on, that's the nature of this industry too. I did what I set out to do - it was always meant to be two movies for me 'cause that was my contract - and so everything is perfect.” "They are more important things that are happening in the world and that was just a little hiccup. I'm good.” THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT