Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is preparing to defend actress Gina Carano, who was fired from Disney + ‘s “The Mandalorian” series for controversial social media posts.
Carano was hit by criticism and remains under scrutiny on social media for a post in which she compared today’s political divide to events in Nazi Germany.
The 38-year-old actress played Cara Dune on the popular Disney + series and Lucasfilm confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that she “is not currently employed” at the company and “there are no plans for” her return “in the future”.
Carano’s expulsion resulted in praise and fury from “Star Wars” fans. Those who supported the actress made the hashtag #CancelDisneyPlus become a trend on Twitter. But Cruz suggested on Thursday that the streaming service was wrong to let her go.
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“Texan Gina Carano broke down barriers in the Star Wars universe: neither a princess, nor a victim, nor an emotionally tortured Jedi. She played a woman who kicked one – and that the girls admired. She was instrumental in making Star Wars fun. again. Of course Disney canceled it, “Cruz tweeted.
Actress Gina Carano was fired from Lucasfilm’s ‘The Mandalorian’ after her reaction to controversial tweets.
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Cruz’s tweet received his own attention from critics and supporters.
“She’s amazing! How nice for her to speak! And censorship continues. Freedom of speech is over,” said one person tweeted to cruz.
“Where did all our freedoms go? Sad days for us Patriots,” replied another account.
Others felt that Carano’s comments were not defensible and criticized Cruz’s defense.
“My goal in life is to never do anything to get Ted Cruz to come to my defense,” a user criticized.
“Probably the Holocaust thing that they canceled it for, Ted”, another wrote sarcastically.
One person argued: “The problem is not with her character, who kicked one … The problem is with the actor, who expressed horrible visions with which his employer does not want to be associated.”
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Carano’s controversial post said: “Jews were beaten on the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children. As the story is edited, most people today don’t realize that getting to the point where the Nazi soldiers could easily get around Among thousands of Jews, the government first made its own neighbors hate them simply because they were Jews. How this is different from hating someone for their political views. “
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Lucasfilm confirmed on Wednesday that Carano “is not currently employed” by the company that has left fans of “Mandalorian” in an online frenzy.
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A second post by Carano contained a photo of a person wearing cloth masks to cover his face and head with the caption: “Meanwhile in California.” Variety reported that both posts were removed from its Instagram on Wednesday afternoon.
Others remained, however, including one that allegedly said, “Expecting everyone you meet to agree with all the beliefs or views you hold is crazy,” as well as another that said, “Jeff Epstein didn’t kill himself.”
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Cruz is not the only high-profile individual to react to Carano’s controversy.
“Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn seemed to approve of the online criticism of the actress from “The Mandalorian” by liking a tweet that defended him and took down Carano. The tweet he “liked” on the platform read, “Oh f – k, don’t drag @JamesGunn to this unfortunate trend topic”, written by businesswoman Olga Kay.
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Other advocates of Carano pointed to several examples of hypocrisy, from a tweet from his “Mandalorian” co-star Pedro Pascal, who compared Nazi concentration camps to American immigrant homes to Disney’s ongoing commercial ties with China, even when the Beijing government arrested Uighur Muslims in concentration camps. The studio also thanked officials in Xinjiang province, where the camps are located, in the final credits of “Mulan”.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News contributed to this report.