Jenna Ortega Against Political Correctness: “It Makes Us Lose Much of Our Honesty”

“Everyone wants to be politically correct, but I feel like by doing that, we lose a lot of our humanity and integrity, because it lacks honesty.” So Jenna Ortega, in the cover interview given to Vanity Fair gets straight to the point criticizing Hollywood’s tendency to want to be politically correct. But at what cost? “The environment in which we work is so touchy” explained the American star who we will see at the next Venice Film Festival for the world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Of Tim Burtonwhich will be presented out of competition.

«I would hope that we could all find the ability to dialogue again. Imagine if everyone could say what they think without being judged for it, if what we say generated a kind of debate, not an argument. Am I describing world peace? In particular, Jenna Ortega explained why she decided to leave Scream 7 following the dismissal of her friend and colleague Melissa Barrerawho was removed from the production after a series of comments on social media referring to the conflict between Hamas and Israel. In particular, Barrera had shared a post accusing Israel of “genocide and ethnic cleansing,” later republishing an excerpt from Jewish Currents magazine about distorting “the Holocaust to boost Israel’s war industry.”

On what happened, the producer of Scream, Spyglass Media Group, had declared to Variety: «Spyglass’ position is unequivocally clear: we have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism or hate speech in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, distortion of the Holocaust, or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.»

Source: Vanity Fair

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