‘Mandalorian’ Actor Gina Carano Fired Following ‘Abhorrent’ Social Media Posts
Gina Carano has been fired from Disney+’s hit Star Wars spinoff, The Mandalorian, following backlash over her controversial statements on social media.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” reads a company statement released to The Hollywood Reporter by a Lucasfilm spokesperson. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Carano’s social media activity has been garnering attention for some time due to her controversial stances on the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election, as well as for a post considered transphobic. The firing follows an Instagram Story, since deleted, that suggests that being a Republican today is like being a Jewish person during the Holocaust.
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Shortly after the post, several people took a screenshot and spread it around the internet alongside #FireGinaCarano.
Known for her mixed martial arts skills, Carano is a former MMA fighter who went on to act. She has appeared in seven installments of The Mandalorian since its 2019 debut.
The actor has made no official statements at this time.
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Seems like your freedom of speech has been taken away from you! Everyone has a opinion and today it doesn’t matter...
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Ridiculous cancel culture at work again !!!
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She is welcome to have any views she likes. She is welcome to express them any way she likes.
And anyone else in the world is welcome to choose not to work with her.
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Really? I don't know where you work, but if you have a problem with someone you work with, do you get to simply "choose not to work with" them? Or maybe you might have a problem with Human Resources in YOUR company?
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Walt Disney must be spinning in his grave. His company should issue a statement saying, "Any relationship between this company and its founder is purely coincidental." An actress holding ideas that don't completely conform to theirs causes a meltdown, while they openly collaborate with a genocidal regime in China & thank them for their cooperation in the Mulan remake. Well, I, for one, won't be watching anything they produce, and I believe that a lot of other people won't, either. Way to go, you leftists. Only in Hollywood can you offend your audience & still expect them to keep giving you their business.
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It is a shame that we have come to this. " I may not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it" Patrick Henry or Voltaire I have heard so much violence, hatred and disgusting things in so called "rap" music and they still play it BUT they are only now silencing anyone on the Right or who is a Republican for anything and everything they say?? Welcome to the real life version of 1984
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It was Voltaire. Good argument.
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Well, I am going to "Vote with my Feet" and cancel Disney/HULU.
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Its hypocritical because when christiane amanpour compared Trumps tenure to Kristallnacht the libs of course were nowhere to be found
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Seems insane that she was fired for thinking differently. Shame on her for thinking
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