![]() ‘I’ve seen the looks on their faces,’ she said. ‘I had a problem because I wasn’t going along with the narrative.’Ĭarano said that she was ‘prepared at any point to be let go, because I’ve seen this happen to so many people.’ ‘They’ve been all over me and they’ve been watching me like a hawk, and I’m watching people on the same production and they can say everything they want, and that’s where I had a problem,’ she said. She said she was being monitored for her social media posts, which were often opinionated and political in nature, even while her more liberal co-stars were free to express their viewpoints without fear of being punished. ![]() She said the email revealed that there were those in the company who ‘went to bat for me’ but ‘they didn’t win out at the end.’ ‘How I found out was that I looked on the internet, and you know, you check your Twitter and I’m trending and the “fire Gina Carano” hashtag worked,’ she said.Ĭarano said that she was accidentally sent an email by a Disney employee. They were like “Why didn’t you add the character? Why did you have to take off the character? Is there something wrong? Is Gina getting fired?”’Ĭarano told Shapiro that nobody at Disney or Lucasfilm spoke with her personal to inform her that she would not be returning to the hit streaming series. ‘All the fans of Cara Dune were just outraged. ‘Just a couple of weeks ago, Lucasfilm asked an artist that they employ to erase my character and put a different character in place, and he proudly announces this on Twitter, and erases my character and puts another character in place,’ she said. Many of Carano’s supporters online pointed out that her co-star on The Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal, once used his social media account to compare ICE detention centers to Nazi concentration camps.Ĭancel Disney+ began to trend on Twitter shortly after Carano's firing with many pointing to Pascal's comments as evidence of the company's hypocrisy when dealing with conservative stars.ĭays after her firing, she confirmed her plan to star in a new film in collaboration with The Daily Wire, the right-leaning news and opinion website founded by Shapiro.Ĭarano told Shapiro that she felt she was being ‘head-hunted’ by executives at Disney and Lucasfilm. Talent agency UTA has also dropped Carano as a client following the controversy, according to Variety.Īlso Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that toy manufacturer Hasbro has halted production of her Cara Dune action figure.Ĭarano’s firing also sparked outrage - this time from conservatives who claim that mainstream media companies like Disney were not allowing its stars to air views that ran contrary to liberal thinking. Carano deleted the post, but it was screenshot and shared on Twitter, where it went viral, prompting a campaign calling on Disney to fire her.
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