Gina Carano “is not currently employed at Lucasfilm,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday, after the controversy arose over the social media posts of the “Mandalorian” star. UTA also abandoned her as a customer, Variety confirmed.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her in the future,” said a Lucasfilm spokesman in a statement. “However, your posts on social media denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Carano shared several offensive posts in his Instagram stories on Tuesday night, including one that compared contemporary political differences to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children,” wrote Carano on Instagram. “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 because they were Jews. How different this is from hating someone for their political opinions. ”The post originated on a different Instagram account.
In another post, Carano shared a photo of a person wearing various cloth masks with the caption: “Meanwhile in California …”
Both posts had disappeared from Carano’s Instagram in the middle of Wednesday. Other posts, including one in which Carano wrote “Jeff Epstein did not kill himself”, remained.
The hashtag #FireGinaCarano started circulating on Twitter on Wednesday in response to your posts. Many users marked Lucasfilm and the parent company Disney in their posts.
Carano knows controversy on social networks. In November, she was criticized for mocking people who specify preferred pronouns when she updated her biography on Twitter with “beep / bop / boop”, which she later removed.
In December, Lucasfilm announced “Rangers of the New Republic”, a direct offshoot of “The Mandalorian” that seemed to suggest a path for its character Cara Dune, a rebel rebel who had become a Marshall for the New Republic on the show . Lucasfilm has not yet announced a cast for the new show, however.