‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Fired for Controversial Social Media Posts - she "won't be working on any star wars projects in the future"

‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Under Fire for Controversial Social Media Posts

UPDATE: Lucasfilm fired Gina Carano on Wednesday night after the “Mandalorian” star shared several controversial social media posts. Carano, who plays Cara Dune on both seasons of Disne…

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‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Under Fire for Controversial Social Media Posts​

Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune on both seasons of Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian,” garnered backlash on social media Wednesday after sharing several controversial posts on her Instagram story.

Carano shared the posts on her story late Tuesday night. One of the posts she shared compared today’s divided political climate to Nazi Germany.

“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views,” the post, which was originally made on a different Instagram account, read.

Another photo on Carano’s story featured a person with several cloth masks covering their entire face and head. The caption said “Meanwhile in California.”

Both posts were removed from Carano’s Instagram story Wednesday afternoon. Other posts, including a quote saying “Expecting everyone you encounter to agree with every belief or view you hold is fucking wild” and one saying “Jeff Epstein didn’t kill himself,” remained.

Many people on Twitter began using the hashtag #FireGinaCarano, tagging accounts for Disney, Disney Plus, “Star Wars” and Lucasfilm and requesting that Carano be dropped from “The Mandalorian.”

Carano has courted social media controversy before, previously sharing misinformation about mask wearing and voter fraud. In November 2020, she made light of people including their preferred pronouns on social media by adding “beep/bop/boop” to her Twitter bio, which many fans called out as transphobic. Carano later removed the words after she said she spoke to her “Mandalorian” co-star Pedro Pascal. “He helped me understand why people were putting them in their bios. I didn’t know before but I do now. I won’t be putting them in my bio but good for all you who choose to. I stand against bullying, especially the most vulnerable & [support] freedom to choose,” she wrote at the time.

Representatives for Carano and Disney did not respond to Variety’s request for comment.

 

[Jaimas]

What's so stupid about this wokeshit is that we've seen this produce failure after failure after failure. You'd think someone would realize that's financially untenable, but here we fucking are.

You want your product to be successful? Stick to your guns. The woke will never accept an apology and no concession will ever be good enough, so don't bother trying to appease them. Do what you fucking want, and if it pisses them off, that's generally an indication you need to do more of that.

Some wokescold complains that your product is offensive? Tell them that them taking offense isn't your fucking problem. Someone writes an a hitpiece against your project? Use that hitpiece in your fucking marketing, because the exact same way wokeness is often your first major hint that the work will be absolute trash, the woke hating it is likewise a hint that the work will be decent, since it's not going to kowtow to the usual suspects.

 

[Desu Vult]

Ah, Mean Girls. I love that movie. It's kinda scary on how relevant that movie applies to today society. Everyone has to have their cliques, each with their own rules and bylaws. What a mad world.

I prefer Heathers. And we actually might be heading in that direction...

 

[Private Pyle]

Dont use twitter to say shit beyond promotion for your work.

I think the hypocrisy behind it is part of why the backlash is being fanned; one person gets fired for making a stupid tweet but then other people make just as stupid tweets and get to keep their jobs. It’s a lack of consistency and double standards.

And don’t get me wrong; in a perfect world, all celebrities would just shut the hell up and just use social media to promote their works.

 

[Oats12345]

Yeah, bro. I'm sure evil ess jay dubbayew Kathleen Kennedy is trying to destroy a show that she greenlit, executive produced, and hired Favreau and Filoni to do. After all, there's no better way to destroy a show than removing a shitty side character that no one actually cared about.

Because obviously, *everyone* watched that show exclusively for the handful of episodes where Gina Carano waddled around on camera and was a strong, independent wahmen.


Online Star Wars fans are legitimately the most retarded consoomers on the planet.



No one liked the character. The actress did a terrible job and the character was a very generic "strong wahmen with gun who don't take no shit" trope.

Right-wing culture warriors on Youtube started simping for her when the actress turned out to be a MAGA boomer. That's really all it comes down to. If it wasn't for the actress screeching ORANGE MAN GOOD, we'd be hearing about how the character was an sjw woke feminazi fantasy.

I get that people are currently in full cope mode, but you can disagree with her being fired *without* pretending that she was a good actress and that the character was stunning and brave. She was a totally replaceable side character.

I actually liked the character. Fuck off retard. Also she was going to be in a spin off. She was indeed popular a character.

I hate retards like you. Who pop up in good threads and act like a retarded fuck.

 

[Dyn]

I'm fine with this because Gina Carano honestly isn't a very good actor.

Bring back Kevin Spacey instead.

 

[Desu Vult]

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12343138/

Bunch of actors who were blacklisted in Hollywood for wrong think. Made their own movie studio. This is the first movie of the stuido

They might have been better off with an r rated 3edgy5me gangsta movie IMHO. Theyll probably get locked out of conventional distribution channels anyway, so might just as well go all in.

 

[Oats12345]

They might have been better off with an r rated 3edgy5me gangsta movie IMHO. Theyll probably get locked out of conventional distribution channels anyway, so might just as well go all in.

I think it will go straight to dvd

 

[Private Pyle]

I'm fine with this because Gina Carano honestly isn't a very good actor.

Bring back Kevin Spacey instead.

Kevin Spacey isn’t even an actor, he just acts like himself on set.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I'm fine with this because Gina Carano honestly isn't a very good actor.

Bring back Kevin Spacey instead.

True, I only like actors that diddle kids.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Trust the Plan-ism has come to Star Wars. Stay tuned, don't forget to leave a comment, like, and subscribe!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UZsTBdTwVWo

I can't wait til we get a thread on Doomcuck

 

[Oats12345]

I can't wait til we get a thread on Doomcuck

Way haven't we already, the star wars inner fighting theory that has no evidence should be its own thread.

 

[Stoneheart]

No one liked the character. The actress did a terrible job and the character was a very generic "strong wahmen with gun who don't take no shit" trope.

Its a 80s trope and she looks like a 80s action hero. thats why it worked.
Star wars was never smart, but it was fun and 80s action is the most fun you can have.

 

[I am the Muffin Maker]

I will never understand the need to post stupid shit like this when your job is to get as many people to like you as possible. Everything you say will be wrong in a few years so turn your accounts over to a publicist and move on.

If she wanted to have a conversation about this stuff she could have shit post like the rest of us with an anon name.

I find it interesting how the "shame mobs" mirror the Salem witch trials. IT mostly seems to be used against women, men - unless they've done terrible things can survive (Joss whedon will still get to work, chris pratt - despite his Trump support is famous and rich enough that he'll be fine, Mel Gibson never stopped working etc.).

 

[Oats12345]

I will never understand the need to post stupid shit like this when your job is to get as many people to like you as possible. Everything you say will be wrong in a few years so turn your accounts over to a publicist and move on.

If she wanted to have a conversation about this stuff she could have shit post like the rest of us with an anon name.

I find it interesting how the "shame mobs" mirror the Salem witch trials. IT mostly seems to be used against women, men - unless they've done terrible things can survive (Joss whedon will still get to work, chris pratt - despite his Trump support is famous and rich enough that he'll be fine, Mel Gibson never stopped working etc.).

Why did you list Chris Pratt next to peace of shit Joss Whedon?.

Also I thought it was brave of her to be open of her political views. Real star wars fans did like her.

 

[Dyn]

Why did you list Chris Pratt next to peace of shit Joss Whedon?.

Why wouldn't he? They're both talented artists who've struggled against moral busybodies trying to demonise them because they dislike their personal politics.

 

[Oats12345]

Why wouldn't he? They're both talented artists who've struggled against moral busybodies trying to demonise them because they dislike their personal politics.

Joss whedon's a liberal hacked. Who pretends to be a feminist when's actually he's a peice of shit human being.

 

[melcarba99]

Just wanted to add that, yeah, her acting might not be Oscar worthy, but she is okay, but she is great at fight scenes, thats worth a lot. Her punches and kicks look impactful and her grappling looks realistic and powerful. I dont think no other modern actress right now can convey a sense of physical strenght as much as Gina can.

 

[Dyn]

Joss whedon's a liberal hacked. Who pretends to be a feminist when's actually he's a peice of shit human being.

I think it's very brave of him to be open about his feminism.

 

[soy_king]

I think it's very brave of him to be open about his feminism.

And his sexual harassment of women. Don't forget he's also very open about that.

 

[JohnDoe]

Just wanted to add that, yeah, her acting might not be Oscar worthy, but she is okay, but she is great at fight scenes, thats worth a lot. Her punches and kicks look impactful and her grappling looks realistic and powerful. I dont think no other modern actress right now can convey a sense of physical strenght as much as Gina can.

It's her background in MMA, that's all.

Nobody in Hollywood wants to spend the time and money to train actors or choreograph fight scenes these days. So when a middling actor like her brings MMA or wrestling experience you end up with fight scenes that are head and shoulders above the rest. Weirdly, people like to see combat on screen that looks real and impactful, that they can follow and understand.

This is a really shitty period in film and TV, at least for action.