Despite receiving mixed reviews for her performance, Gina Carano looked set to be a big part of the Star Wars franchise as Marshall Cara Dune. As well as starring in The Mandalorian, the former MMA star was being lined to headline a spin-off series titled Rangers of the New Republic (which was subsequently scrapped).
It all came crashing down for the actress when she was fired by Lucasfilm in February 2021 after some of her social media posts regarding the COVID mask mandates and the pandemic went viral, with some even labelling her anti-trans based on other posts. Carano also shared her take on alleged election tampering following the last U.S. election.
At the time of her firing, Disney released a statement saying Carano's social media posts "[denigrated] people based on their cultural and religious identities," describing them as "abhorrent and unacceptable."
Last month, we found out that the actress has the backing of X owner Elon Musk for a lawsuit which she hopes will make Disney pay for their action. Carano is arguing that she was discriminated against and shouldn't have been fired for exercising free speech; it also sounds like she hopes to force Lucasfilm to bring her back as Cara Dune!
Talking to The Post Millennial about the lawsuit (via SFFGazette.com), Carano shared her belief that this lawsuit is important not just for her, but the greater good too.
"I'm happy that like, people are going to actually have to dig in and take my situation seriously, and they're going to have to understand, when they're looking through all this, what their company was doing," she says. "And by looking through that they're going to have to make adjustments so that it's gonna make it that much harder for it to happen to the next person. And that's why what I'm doing is important."
"A lot of people, billionaires, put their money wherever they put it," Carano continued, "but to put your money into defending people that have been done wrong is such a noble cause. It's like Elon Musk is some kind of Batman."
After claiming Disney's actions have stopped her from getting any sort of mainstream work (even voiceover roles), she distanced herself from The Daily Wire, and shared her hopes to make a mainstream career comeback despite Hollywood seemingly wanting nothing to do with her.
Later addressing her apparent decision to mock trans pronouns by adding "beep/boop" to her social media accounts, Carano noted, "I was like, what is the least offensive thing you could ever do? And it's like, that is the least offensive thing. And then and then like, you know if there was there's just so many aggressive like trolls and bots and haters and probably a lot of a lot of misled young people who love to bully people"
" And so when somebody would say something bad to me I would just 'beep boop' at them because I feel like that was basically the cutest thing. You see all these other you know, a lot of my male co-stars would go aggressive at these people and say some stuff and I'm like, over here booping people. And I'm the one that gets fired?"
When the site brought up Disney's move to get the case dismissed, Carano simply responded, "We all feel pretty confident that this is not something that they're gonna be able to dismiss."