Jenna Ortega says everyone in Hollywood wants to be politically correct: ‘We lose our humanity’

Jenna Ortega has shared how she feels about the controversy surrounding her Scream 6 costar Melissa Barrera being fired from the film after making posts on social media in support of Palestinians in Gaza . Ortega, 21, said there is more emphasis on being “politically correct”, which takes away one’s sense of “integrity”. “The business that we work in is so touchy-feely,” Ortega told Vanity Fair .

“Everybody wants to be politically correct, but I feel like, in doing that, we lose a lot of our humanity and integrity, because it lacks honesty. “I wish that we had a better sense of conversation. Imagine if everyone could say what they felt and not be judged for it and, if anything, it sparked some sort of debate, not an argument.

Am I describing world peace?” In November last year, Barrera was dropped from Scream 7 after the film’s production company Spyglass Media found that some of her posts on social media could be perceived as antisemitic . In one social media post, the In the Heights breakout star wrote: “Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp. “Cornering everyone together, with nowhere to go, no electricity no water .

.. People have learnt nothing from our histories.

And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING.” Variety ’s source suggested at the time that Barrera was fired over one post in particular that “floated an antisemitic trope that Jews control t.