The Empire Strikes Back: Disney CEO says Mandalorian star Gina Carano was fired for “violating values that are universal” after she tweeted a post comparing the culture of cancellation to the Holocaust
- Bob Chapek tacitly defended the resignation of Gina Carano during Disney’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Tuesday
- Chapker argued that Disney is not “leftist or right”, but represents “universal values” of respect, decency, integrity and inclusion
- Carano, 38, was fired by Lucasfilm of The Mandalorian for a social media post that compared the Holocaust to the US political climate
- Carano said his colleague Pedro Pascal escaped by comparing US ICE detention centers to Nazi concentration camps because he is a liberal
Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek on Tuesday tacitly defended the dismissal of Mandalorian star Gina Carano, suggesting that she was dismissed not because of her conservative views, but for expressing opinions that go against values ” the company’s “universal.”
Chapek also denied that the decision was based on politics and rejected claims that the entertainment juggernaut is “leftist or rightist”.
During Disney’s annual shareholder meeting, Chapek was asked about Carano’s resignation last month for comparing the Jewish experience during the Holocaust with the political climate in the United States.
A caller asked Chapek during the question and answer session of the meeting if Carano, 38, was singled out for speaking openly about his conservative beliefs, as opposed to his left-wing co-star Pedro Pascal, who kept his job after comparing detention. by ICE centers for Nazi concentration camps.
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Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek defended the resignation of Mandalorian star Gina Carano on Tuesday. He suggested that the actress clashed with the company’s “universal values”
The shareholder also asked the CEO if the company had a ‘blacklist’, Deadline reported.
Chapek, who did not mention Carano by name, replied that he does not see the $ 200 billion company as “left or right leaning” and said that Disney stands for “values that are universal: values of respect, values of decency, values of integrity and inclusion values. ‘
He continued: ‘and we try to make the content we make reflect the rich diversity of the world in which we live. And I think this is a world in which we must all live in harmony and peace. ‘
Carano, a former MMA fighter who played the recurring character Cara Dune on the popular Disney + show, was fired last month for the job.
Lucasfilm, who produced The Mandalorian, released a statement calling for Carano to ‘denigrate people based on their cultural and religious identities’ and classified his posts as ‘abominable and unacceptable’.
The former MMA fighter (left) was kicked out of the Disney + program after sharing a post on social media (right) that compared the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the political climate of the United States
Carano was criticized after posting that ‘Jews were beaten on the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children’.
She went on to say: ‘As the story is edited, most people today do not realize that, to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily arrest thousands of Jews, the government first caused its own neighbors to hate them simply for be Jewish. How is this different from hating someone for their political opinions? “
Carano deleted the post, but it was widely shared online and propelled the hashtag #FireGinaCarano to become a trend.
His supporters were quick to point out that Pascal, who plays the show’s title character, in 2018 shared an image on his Twitter account comparing U.S. ICE detention centers to Nazi concentration camps.
Carano said in an interview with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that Pascal managed to get away with being liberal, while she was punished for being conservative.
Carano, who played Cara Dune on the show (photo), said his colleague Pedro Pascal (pictured, the Mandalorian) managed to get away with comparing US ICE detention centers to Nazi concentration camps because he is a liberal
“They were on top of me and watching me like a hawk,” said Carano of the studio executives. ‘And I’m watching other people in the same production and they can say whatever they want, and that’s when I had a problem.’
Carano insisted that she was not the only one who felt ‘intimidated’ in The Mandalorian defined by her political beliefs, and said that others who had conservative views were reluctant to speak up.
“I’m not the only one who has been bullied by this company, and I know that deeply,” she told Shapiro.