Gina Carano is speaking about the events that led to her being dropped from The Mandalorian for the first time since filing her lawsuit against Disney.
Carano, who played Din Djarin's loyal ally Cara Dune in the first two seasons of the Disney+ Star Wars series, was fired by Lucasfilm in 2021 for what were deemed to be a series of "abhorrent" social media posts.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future," said Lucasfilm's statement at the time. "Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
The former MMA fighter's posts had been the source of controversy for quite some time before the studio took action, but inferring that being a Republican today is comparable to being Jewish during the Holocaust appeared to be the final straw for Disney.
Carano was given multiple opportunities to delete her posts and submit an apology, but declined.
Now, in a lengthy THR piece, Carano has addressed the situation in more detail.
“I just laid down and cried and cried,” Carano recalls. “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.”
Somewhat ironically after the reaction to Carano's more incendiary posts, she believes it was actually her decision to add the words “Boop/bop/beep” to her social media profiles after being asked to support trans rights by listing her pronouns that landed her in the most hot water and, according to the actress, ultimately got her fired.
“Boop/bop/beep?” she asked incredulously when thinking back to the incident. “Seriously? This was the start of the end for me? A 20-year career, the blood, sweat and tears of fighting? I never compromised myself for a job. I never ended 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?”
Carano says she doesn't regret her actions, however, and is currently suing Disney and Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination in the hopes of being reinstated as Cara Dune(?).
“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 concludes. “This has been one of the toughest growth spurts of my life and I don’t plan on wasting what I have learned.”
What do you make of Carano's comments? Do you think she was unfairly fired in the first place, or is she simply reaping what she sowed? Be sure to share your thoughts down below.