LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lucasfilm says Gina Carano is no longer on the cast of “The Mandalorian” after many online resigned because of a social media post that compared the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the political climate of USA.
A spokesman for the producer said in a statement on Wednesday that Carano is not currently employed at Lucasfilm with “no plans for her to be in the future”.
“However, their posts on social media denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are disgusting and unacceptable,” says the statement.
Carano was widely criticized after posting that “Jews were beaten on the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children”.
The actor 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 simply hate them for being Jewish. How is this different from hating someone for their political opinions? “
Carano, who played the recurring character Cara Dune in the “Star Wars” series, deleted the post, but it was widely shared online and spurred the hashtag #FireGinaCarano to become a trend. His character appeared in several episodes of the second season of “The Mandalorian”, a series about a bounty hunter and his quest to unite a young and powerful Force user with a Jedi Knight.
Dune, who in the second season is a lawman on a frontier planet, often joins the title character to fight an old enemy: the remnants of the evil Galactic Empire.
Carano, a former mixed martial arts fighter whose character of Duna used a mix of heavy weapons and his fists against the best opponents, was criticized for posting on social media that mocked the use of a mask during the pandemic and alleged electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election. She also scoffed at the use of gender pronouns, listing “beep / bop / boop” in her social media biography.