Lucasfilm Drops Gina Carano From 'The Mandalorian' Over Social Media Posts

February 11th, 2021 - 1:38 PM EST by Philipp Kachalin

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Gina Carano as Cara Dune in The Mandalorian Season 2

Gina Carano has been dropped from the cast of The Mandalorian after the actress and former MMA fighter compared a backlash she received on social media over her views to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. In the past few months, actress stirred a string of controversies with her social media activity, which included anti-mask posts and putting mocking pronouns on her Twitter bio.

On Wednesday night, Lucasfilm released a statement announcing that actress Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune in the Disney+ hit series The Mandalorian, was no longer employed by the company, citing her "abhorrent and unacceptable" social media posts as the reason for the decision.

"Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."

The talent agency UTA also announced severing ties with the actress.

The move comes after Carano made several controversial story posts on her Instagram. In one post, Carano compared the backlash she received on social media for her views to being a Jew in Nazi Germany. Another post showed a person covered in masks, captioned "meanwhile in California" by Carano.

Following the posts, the hashtag #FireGinaCarano trended on Twitter as users recounted the history of Carano's social media activity in the recent months. This includes Carano briefly putting "boop/bop/beep" as her pronouns on Twitter in September, tweeting about election fraud in November, liking tweets denying systemic racism and making a number of several anti-mask posts.

But just as news of Carano being fired from 'The Mandalorian' spread, the competing hashtag #CancelDisneyPlus reached the top of Twitter trends in the United States, with some users criticizing Disney and Lucasfilm over the decision to fire the actress over her social media activity. However, the hashtag was later hijacked by those supporting the move.


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Being marginalized for your political opinions is not the same as the political violence and harassment received by Jews in the early 20th century (or the centurIES prior). It's still shit and others have already pointed out Disney's hypocrisy, but Gina's a grown-ass healthy wealthy woman who's in no real marginalized position.

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