Gina Carano’s social media posts have officially cost her a job that most performers would dream of having. Amid controversial social media posts from the actress, Lucasfilm released a statement late last night announcing that Carano, who plays bounty hunter Cara Dunne on the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, is no longer employed by Lucasfilm. This means that her time on The Mandalorian is up.
A spokesperson had this to say about her firing:
“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.”
Carano’s social media controversy began when she began when Carano shared a Tik Tok post comparing the divided political climate to Nazi Germany to her Instagram. In that post, Carano wrote “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views.”
Carano and her supporters tried to get the hashtag #weloveginacarano to trend but the damage was already done. The hashtag #FireGinaCarano began trending even more on social media and users began tagging Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau, Disney, Disney+, Star Wars, and Lucasfilm in order to get their attention. The move clearly worked because now Carano has lost a huge opportunity.
