Anna Camp Apologises For Sharing Shady Post About Scream 7 Boycotters: ‘Meant No Harm’
Anna Camp has issued an apology and said she “meant no harm” after resharing a shady post directed at those who are boycotting her new movie, Scream 7.
ICYMI, Camp appears in the recently released addition to the slasher franchise alongside the likes of Neve Campbell, McKenna Grace and Matthew Lillard.
Earlier today, Camp shared another user’s post which praised the movie while criticising the “boycott” and the lacklustre critical reception it received.
“The boycott didn’t work. The critics hate didn’t work. The pathetic leaks didn’t work. What worked was audiences coming out and making [Scream 7] a success,” the post read.
According to multiple reports, Camp reshared the post on her Instagram Stories with the Taylor Swift song “Karma” as the soundtrack, but she quickly deleted it soon after.
“It has come to my attention that I reposted someone else’s story that does not reflect my personal beliefs,” Camp wrote on X. “I have since deleted the repost because I absolutely meant no harm. I’m sorry to anyone who was affected.”
The original post’s mention of a Scream boycott refers to activists’ and fans’ efforts to snub the seventh movie over the firing of Melissa Barrera from the franchise back in 2023.
At the time of her exit, Barrera — who played Sam Carpenter in Scream 5 and Scream 6 — had shared pro-Palestine posts on social media, including some that accused Israel of “genocide and ethnic cleansing”.
The production company behind Scream, Spyglass Media Group, cited Barrera’s post as the reason for her firing, saying it had “zero tolerance” for “the incitement of hate” or “anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech”.
Just one day later, Barrera’s fellow Scream castmate Jenna Ortega also departed the franchise in solidarity with her co-star, saying it was “falling apart” due to the “Melissa stuff”.
The pair’s joint departure led calls for fans to boycott the franchise, and the campaign continued ahead of the Scream 7’s release.
The film’s director, Kevin Williams, addressed the continued controversy after protestors appeared at the Los Angeles premiere of Scream 7 last week.
“We live in a world where a lot of bad things are happening out there, and I think a lot of people want to be heard and they want to have their voice heard about the bad stuff that’s happening,” Williamson told Variety.
“My heart goes out to them [the protestors]. I think people should listen to their inner self and do what feels good for them.”
For her part, Barrera seemingly addressed the boycotters by resharing footage of the premiere protestors on social media with the caption, “I see you”, per Us Weekly.
Scream 7 marked the return of both Williamson in the director’s chair and a bunch of legacy characters, including those played by Campbell, Lillard and and Courteney Cox.
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