Actress Gina Carano says she discovered she was recently fired from the Disney + series “The Mandalorian” via social media.
The 38-year-old artist played Cara Dune in the “Star Wars” series produced by Lucasfilm, which is owned by Disney.
Carano told former New York Times columnist and editor Bari Weiss in his Common Sense newsletter that she and Lucasfilm had been at odds for some time over what Carano posted on social media. More recently, Carano received criticism after posting a message on Instagram comparing today’s political divide with events in Nazi Germany.
“I found out on social media, like everyone else, that I had been fired,” he revealed.
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Carano says the friction started with Lucasfilm in November, when she changed her Twitter profile and added “beep / bop / boop” as her pronouns, which some people interpreted as a mockery from the transgender community.
The former MMA fighter claimed that Lucasfilm wanted her to post an apology written by her team.
Actress Gina Carano claims she was excluded from the press for the second season of ‘The Mandalorian’.
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“At the beginning of last year, before the release of ‘The Mandalorian’, they wanted me to use their exact words for an apology about the use of pronouns. I refused and offered a statement in my own words. I made it clear that I didn’t want to nothing to do with mocking the transgender community, and I was just drawing attention to the abuse of the mafia by forcing people to put pronouns in their biographies, “she explained.
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Per Carano, Lucasfilm then allegedly set her aside during the press for the second season of “The Mandalorian”.
“It was heartbreaking, but I didn’t want to take the hard work out of everyone who worked on the project, so I said ok. That was the last time I was contacted about any kind of public statement or apology from Lucasfilm,” she said.
On February 10, a Lucasfilm spokesman said in a statement obtained by Variety: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. However, her social networks publish denigrating people based on in their culture and religious identities are abominable and unacceptable. “
Gina Carano was also dismissed by her talent agency UTA.
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After his resignation, Carano was also dismissed by his talent agency UTA and Hasbro reportedly canceled plans to make more toys based on his sci-fi character.
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In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, retailer BigBadToyStore noted that the company is no longer producing action figures of Carano’s character due to recent events, forcing it to cancel pre-orders.
“The Star Wars Black Cara Dune number was released in 2020 and sold out not long after the stock was received,” a BigBadToyStore spokeswoman told the channel on Monday by email. “Hasbro planned another production run and we were accepting orders for that run. Due to recent events, Hasbro was no longer approved to produce more of this number.”
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Disney’s dismissal of Carano prompted many fans of her and “The Mandalorian” to sign a Change.org petition asking Disney to reverse its decision to fire the actress.
Despite requests to reinstate it, Carano has already changed from “The Mandalorian”. According to Deadline, the actress is fighting back at Disney and canceling the culture by partnering with Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire on a new film project.
Lucasfilm did not immediately respond to Fox News’s request for comment.
Tyler McCarthy of Fox News contributed to this report.