MOVIE NEWS – Popular The Mandalorian actress Gina Carano has been fired from the show after a series of controversial social media posts about COVID-19 vaccines and her use of personal pronouns.

Three years after being fired from The Mandalorian, Gina Carano has opened up about her firing from the show and the lawsuit against Lucasfilm and Disney.

The actress and ex-MMA fighter opened up about the “disrespect” and “shame” she felt after being fired in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I just laid down and cried and cried,” said Carano, who said she learned of his firing when the company released a statement online. “I curled into a fetal position. It’s not that I didn’t think that something like that could happen. It was that I couldn’t imagine they would put out this horrendous statement about me after working with me – the most powerful entertainment company in the world saying that about me.”

The actress lost her role as Star Wars mercenary Cara Dune in February 2021 after a series of controversial social media posts.

In addition to taking a stand against COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic and implying that the 2020 presidential election was the result of “voter fraud” amid Donald Trump’s debunked election fraud claims, the actress shared memes spreading disinformation on both topics. The situation came to a head after she reposted a meme that compared dissenting political opinion to Jews living in Nazi Germany.

Defending the post, Carano now said that “just made sense — don’t hate your neighbor. Before the Nazis were as powerful as they became, you had to make it OK to hate this person next to you. That’s how we get to dangerous places. And history does repeat itself.”

She subsequently filed a lawsuit in California federal court, alleging wrongful termination and discrimination, and asking Lucasfilm to reinstate her as Cara Dune.

Elon Musk is helping fund Carano’s lawsuit. “I think it’s pretty incredible what he is doing,” she said of his support. “A lot of billionaires put their money into buying islands and building bunkers. Elon Musk is using his money to fight massive injustice battles.”

Gina Carano and personal pronouns

Prior to her 2021 tweets, Carano also criticized the use of personal pronouns on social media. The actress rejected the idea of sharing pronouns in her Twitter bio as a show of solidarity with the trans community. Instead, she added the words “boop/bop/beep”. She later removed this after speaking with fellow Mandalorian actor Pedro Pascal, who explained the significance of pronouns in biographies for many. But she maintains that mocking the trans community was never her intention.

“I’ve had male publicists with the same size feet as me and we run around in my shoes and try on my dresses,” she told the outlet. “I was just fed up. So I was like, ‘Fine, I’ll put something in my bio: ‘boop/bop/beep’ I thought it was cute, like R2-D2.”

Carano said the incident prompted Lucasfilm and Disney HR to schedule a “reeducation camp” for her, which included media training and a conversation with two transgender representatives from GLAAD.

She was also asked to issue an apology. But she said that after days of back-and-forth edits, Lucasfilm abandoned that effort.

“Boop/bop/beep? Seriously? This was the beginning of the end for me?” Carano said, reflecting on the controversy now. “A 20-year career, the blood, sweat and tears of fighting? I never compromised myself for a job. I never ended [up] in a bad situation where I did anything inappropriate. I had a clean and clear climb to where I got to and was going to just keep going. And boop/bop/beep was that harmful?”

The actress, who is now focusing on “clearing her name”, continued: “You won’t find a perfect person in me, but you will find a person who was doing her absolute best under one of the most aggressive unnecessary cancellations in Hollywood history,” she said.

“This has been one of the toughest growth spurts of my life and I don’t plan on wasting what I have learned.”

Before her firing, Gina Carano starred in the first two seasons of The Mandalorian. She was expected to star in the later cancelled spinoff series Rangers of the New Republic.

Source: THR