After months of controversial posts on social media, attracting ire not only The Mandalorian fans, but a large chunk of society at large, Lucasfilm announced last week that Gina Carano would no longer be playing the role of Cara Dune in the Disney + Star Wars spinoff series The Mandalorian. Hours after Carano shared yet another controversial post via Instagram Stories, Lucasfilm released a statement that said: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. However, her posts on social media denigrate the people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable. “It now appears that Carano will have a say, sitting with Ben Shapiro from The Daily Wire this weekend to break your silence (again).
Here is a look at the image mentioned above, which was later removed:
Deadline Hollywood received an exclusive preview of what viewers can expect – here are some of those things:
Called when she heard that the force was no longer with her (category “Posts on non-social media”): “Do you know how boxers sometimes hunt and forget to go for the body? I feel like Disney or Lucasfilm or whatever, just certain people from that company … I feel like I’ve been hunted (…) and you can feel it. Just a few weeks ago, Lucasfilm asked an artist they hired to delete my character and put a different character in place, and he proudly announces this on Twitter, deletes my character and puts in another character All Cara fans Dune was outraged. They were like, ‘Why didn’t you add the character? Why did you have to remove the character? Is something wrong? Is Ginny getting fired? “
On the confusion of “Hollywood’s double political standard” with people who don’t like offensive Nazi allegories: “They are on top of me and watching me like a hawk, and I am watching people in the same production and they can say whatever they want, and that’s when I had a problem. I had a problem because I was not agreeing with the narrative … “
About allegations that she was being “bullied” and why she doesn’t take back what she said or posted (except for that post you can check above): “I was prepared at any moment to be dismissed, because I saw this happen to a lot of people. I saw the looks on their faces. I saw the bullying that happens, and when it started, they point the guns at you, and you you know it’s just a matter of time. I’ve seen it happen with so many people, and I just thought to myself (…) ‘you’re coming after me, I know you are.’ They’re making it very obvious through your employees who were coming after me, and then I thought, ‘I’m going to swing down and I’m going to stay true to myself.’
About Carano: How to be the hero / martyr in at least your own story: “When you [BS] called, my body is still shaking. It’s devastating, but the idea of it happening to anyone else, especially to someone who couldn’t handle it the way I can, no, they can’t do it. They can’t make people feel that way (…) and if I bow, it will be okay for these companies, which have a history of lying, lying and doing this with other people, and they did it to other people and I will not fall without a fight. “
