Mexican actress Melissa Barrera has confirmed that she was blacklisted in Hollywood because of her outspoken support for Palestinians and her condemnation of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, saying she has no regrets about her position despite the roles and professional opportunities it cost her.
Speaking in a recent radio interview, Barrera said she had no regrets about taking a stand, stressing the importance of calling things as they are. She added that the price she paid was one others had paid before her and that others would pay again.
Melissa Barrera getting blacklisted for standing up for Palestinians just breaks my heart as a Palestinian. If it’s hard for her, it’s worse for Palestinians. How do I move on knowing that our existence is controversial. The system needs to change, everyone needs to speak up
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Melissa Barrera on being blacklisted from Hollywood:
“It's hard to comprehend, but it's also not the first time that that has happened to someone, and it won't be the last. There are a lot of people that got fired for basically saying Palestinians deserve human rights, and they shouldn't be getting bombed and attacked in this way. And it's sad to me that there are interests that are more important to certain people of power and money and that they don't care about people's lives and that they will do everything they can to shut people up from saying that people deserve to live, that children deserve to grow up.
It's hard to comprehend, but I also feel like the tide has turned so much and like everybody kind of is just seeing things for what they are, even if they were resisting at the beginning. And so I try to continue to have hope because I do feel that there's a lot more people out there that care, that actually do care about each other and that understand that we're all connected, that we can't turn a blind eye to something that is happening on the other side of the world just because it's on the other side of the world.”
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Melissa Barrera confirms she was officially blacklisted from Hollywood but says she’s okay with the consequences because it’s important to call things as they are but says she has hope because more people in industry no longer care and are speaking out as well. ❤️