Gina Carano went on to shoot Disney in her first interview since she was fired from “The Mandalorian”, but there is one person in the cast of the series for whom she has no hard feelings, and this is Mando himself, Pedro Pascal.
In an interview with conservative analyst Ben Shapiro, Carano acknowledged that there are significant political differences between her and Pascal and that he did things with which she disagreed, referring to a tweet Pascal sent in January of the telephone number of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas after the attacks on the United States Capitol. But she said that Pascal never allowed these differences to arise between them while they were filming the hit Disney + series “Star Wars”.
“I love Pedro. I love him. I know he said and did some painful things. I don’t think posting anyone’s number on social media is OK, ”she said. “But we closed a deal after we realized that we were a little bit different politically. We had an agreement that, first of all, you are a human being. And you are my friend first. “
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But Carano has not lost his love for Disney, which fired her from the third season of “The Mandalorian” after public protests over social media posts that the MMA fighter who became an actor compared being conservative in Hollywood to being Jewish during the Holocaust . Even before that tweet, Carano said he felt his online presence was being monitored by the studio in a way that was not done by his castmates.
“I’m not the only one who has been bullied by this company and I know that deeply,” she said. “They are on top of me and watching me like a hawk. And I’m 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 following the narrative ”.
Carano also turned his anger on some “Star Wars” fans, who she felt were not only trying to get her fired from the show, but also interfering with her personal friendship with Pascal. “I love the fact that we are both in love,” she said. “We think a little differently, I think, through our different experiences. I know we both made mistakes in our tweets. We are not perfect. We are human beings. But he is not a bad human being. He’s a sweet person. “
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Shapiro, who is editor of the right-wing website The Daily Wire, got the first interview with Carano since his resignation after offering him a new job on a film project for the site. During the interview, Carano spoke about the tweet that led to her dismissal.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children,” said the post with a photo of a Jewish woman fleeing men with truncheons in 1941. “How 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 because they were Jews. How is this different from hating someone for their political opinions? “
Carano said he expected a resignation, but found out through social media and reports before receiving an “accidental” email from Disney confirming that she was no longer on the show. She said the purpose of her tweet was to “bring people together” and that she is “very inspired by the kind spirit of the Jewish people”.
“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, ”she said. “If I bow down, it will be okay for these companies, which have a history of lies, to lie and do it to other people, and they have done it to other people, and I will not fall without a fight. “
Disney representatives Lucasfilm and Pascal did not immediately respond to requests for comment.