Earlier this month, actress Gina Carano was fired from The Mandalorian cast amid widespread online controversy over a social media post that likened the experience of Jews in the Holocaust to the US political climate.
In the since-deleted Instagram post, Carano wrote, “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbours…. even by children.”
“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realise that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbours hate them simply for being Jews.”
Carano, a former MMA fighter and actress, portrayed the bounty hunter Cara Dune. In the aftermath of the social media maelstrom, the actress was dropped by her agency UTA and fired from The Mandalorian by Lucasfilm.
In a recent interview with former New York Times writer Bari Weiss, Carano has shed light on her dismissal from the franchise, revealing that she only found out about her firing via social media.
The actress claims that her relationship with Lucasfilm was on edge prior to the controversial post. Carano acknowledged that Disney had already taken Carano off the promotional tours for season 2 of the cult series for a number of social media posts.
These posts revolved around anti-mask rhetoric in the midst of the pandemic, allegations of fraudulent results of the 2020 Presidential election, and an incident in which she was accused of mocking transgender pronouns.
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As The Independent report, Gina Carano was asked to add her preferred pronounces to her Twitter bio. In response to the request she added “boop/bop/beep” to her Twitter name, in alleged mockery of the common practice.
Carano claims that Lucasfilm pushed her to release a company-written apology statement over the pronoun joke, which she refused.
“Earlier on last year before The Mandalorian came out, they wanted me to use their exact wording for an apology over pronoun usage,” Carano told Bari Weiss. “I declined and offered a statement in my own words. I made clear I wanted nothing to do with mocking the transgender community, and was just drawing attention to the abuse of the mob in forcing people to put pronouns in their bio.”
In response, Lucasfilm decided to exclude her from press and promotion for the show. “That was heart-breaking, but I didn’t want to take away from the hard work of everyone who worked on the project, so I said ok. That was the last time I was contacted about any type of public statement or apology from Lucasfilm.”
Carano went on to reveal that she found out via the internet that she had been fired, “I found out through social media, like everyone else, that I had been fired.”
