Gina Carano was pulled from her role in Disney’s “The Mandalorian” after comparing today’s political division with events in Nazi Germany on social media – but her now former castmate received a pass for making a similar comparison, and many critics are pointing out hypocrisy.
As a result, a similar 2018 tweet from “Mandalorian” star Pedro Pascal, doing essentially the same thing, was discovered on Thursday, leaving fans confused as to why only one of the actors was punished.
Conservative Carano, who played Cara Dune on the popular Disney + series, “is not currently employed at” Lucasfilm, the company confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. In addition, the statement states that “there are no plans to” have the actress hired by Lucasfilm “in the future”.
Some fans say that the stars of “The Mandalorian” Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano received different treatments from Lucasfilm.
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Carano, 38, has aroused anger in the past over a handful of political statements that have angered fans, such as messages about masks and electoral fraud. His comments this week, however, created a major divide between social media users, with some calling for the actress to resign with the hashtag #FireGinaCarano, while others tore Disney – Lucasfilm’s parent company and the “Star Wars” franchise – and its streaming service, Disney +.
But liberal Pascal, who played the show’s title character, The Mandalorian, used the hashtag #ThisisAmerica to caption images side by side. The top image showed children confined by barbed wire in Nazi Germany around 1944, while the bottom image was supposedly from the United States in 2018 – although several reports indicated that the photo actually showed Palestinian children in the West Bank years ago. Pascal’s message for 2018 came at the height of a controversy over the “zero tolerance” immigration policy under the Trump administration at the time.
Pascal also posted a now-deleted tweet in 2020 that compared Trump’s supporters to Nazis, the New York Post noted.
Lucasfilm and Disney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Columnist and radio host Tim Young described this as a double standard plaguing the popular ‘Star Wars’ spinoff.
“There is a clear hypocrisy at Lucasfilm, where Pedro Pascal can hyperbolically compare Trump’s policy with Nazi Germany, but Gina Carano can’t even get fired. The conservatives on the Hollywood black list are already known – now we can confirm,” Young told Fox News.
Young, who was a fan of “The Mandalorian”, said he thinks hypocrisy could be the last straw when it comes to his support for the franchise.
“After the terrible new trilogy, ‘The Mandalorian’ made me a Star Wars fan again, but Disney ended their political bias,” said Young, predicting that Lucasfilm might not finish serving the liberals.
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“Bill Burr is hated by those who woke up to his comedy,” said Young. “He’s probably next.”
This is not the first controversy to plague Disney, which is often criticized for its ties to China. Disney fired and subsequently rehired “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn in 2019, after a decade-long tweets reappeared in which he toyed with topics like pedophilia and rape.
Many others accessed Twitter with thoughts on ‘Mandalorian’ hypocrisy:
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Melissa Roberto, from Fox News, contributed to this report.