Melissa Barrera & WME Part Ways
EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Barrera is no longer with WME.
The actress signed on with talent agency around 2019 as her feature career was taking off with a big role in Jon M. Chu and Warner Bros’ feature take of Broadway musical In the Heights.
The actress remains represented Sugar 23 management, Imprint PR and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
Deadline understands that Barrera herself decided to exit WME. The decision comes a little more than a year after she was dropped from the upcoming Scream VII by Spyglass Media over her social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict. Spyglass perceived the actress’ posts as antisemitic. Barrera responded to the firing on her Instagram Stories, exclaiming “First and foremost I condemn Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. I condemn hate and prejudice of any kind against any group of people.” Barrera was part of a big reboot of the Dimension horror comedy franchise with Scream in 2022 grossing $137.7M WW and Scream VI last year making $166.3M WW after posting a record franchise domestic debut of $44.4M.
Post controversy, Barrera has had a busy year: her romantic genre pic, Your Monster, made its world premiere at Sundance back in January. She starred in the Radio Silence directed Universal horror movie Abigail back in the spring. Upcoming is the Kwame Kwei-Armah-directed feature about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Collaboration, in which she stars opposite Daniel Bruhl and Paul Bettany. Deadline just reported that she’s starring in the movie, In the Cradle of Granite, a new Western thriller repping the English-language debut of Ariel Escalante.
Barrera before In the Heights starred in the Starz series Vida about two Mexican-American sisters, who are forced to move back to their childhood neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles after the death of their mother, only to learn shocking details about her.
