If you were on social media Wednesday night and saw #FireGinaCarano trending, then here’s a follow-up for you. Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune in The Mandalorian, has indeed… been fired.
On Tuesday night, the actress shared multiple insensitive posts via her Instagram stories. One post compared America’s political divide to Nazi Germany; another story showed a picture of people in cloth masks, with the caption, “Meanwhile in California.” Carano removed both posts by Wednesday afternoon. But considering this is far from Carano’s first brush with spreading insensitive content through her social media accounts—we’ll get to that shortly—it didn’t take LucasFilm long to remove the actress from The Mandalorian, as well as from all future projects with the company.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
The move likely comes as a relief to Star Wars fans who have been calling for Carano’s firing since September, when she put the words “boop/bob/beep” in her Twitter bio, in lieu of pronouns. Many saw this as Carano openly mocking trans people. After being accused of this, Carano removed the words from her bio, but fired back at fans, writing that “Beep/bop/boop has zero to do with mocking trans people” and everything “to do with exposing the bullying mentality of the mob that has taken over the voices of many genuine causes.” But she said she finally removed the words because her co-star on The Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal, helped her understand why people specify their pronouns in their social media bios.
“He helped me understand why people were putting them in their bios,” she said. “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.”
There are several other controversial posts that still remain on Carano’s social media accounts, however. One includes a quote that says, “Expecting everyone you encounter to agree with every belief or view you hold is fucking wild.” Another one refers to the death of Jeffrey Epstein, claiming that “Jeff Epstein didn’t kill himself.” But it was Tuesday’s posts that must have forced Lucasfilm to finally take action. Here’s the transcript of the deleted message comparing today’s political climate to Nazi Germany, which was written by another account:
“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”
Carano’s last tweet refers to an appearance on The Babylon Bee podcast, so she has yet to respond to LucasFilm’s statement.
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