LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lucasfilm says Gina Carano is no longer part of the cast of “The Mandalorian” after many online called for her resignation over a social media post that compared Jews’ experience during the Holocaust to American political climate.
A spokesman for the production company said in a statement Wednesday that Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm with “no plans for her in the future”.
Nevertheless, her social media posts disparaging people based on their cultural and religious identities are repugnant and unacceptable, the statement said.
Carano was severely criticized after posting that “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors … even by children.”
The actor went on to say, “As history is being edited, most people today do not realize that in order to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily arrest thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them. just because they were Jews. How is it different from hating someone because of their political views? “
Carano, who played the recurring character Cara Dune on the “Star Wars” series, deleted the post, but it was widely shared online, sparking the #FireGinaCarano hashtag. Her character appeared in several episodes of the second season of “The Mandalorian,” a series about a bounty hunter and his quest to unite a powerful young user of the Force with a Jedi Knight.
Dune, who is a wetman on a frontier planet in Season 2, regularly teams up with the title character to fight an ancient nemesis – remnants of the evil Galactic Empire.
Carano, a former mixed martial artist whose Dune character used a mix of heavy weapons and her fists to be the best of opponents, had been criticized for social media posts that included wearing masks during the pandemic and alleged voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. was mocked. She also mocked the use of gender nouns and mentioned “beep / bop / boop” in her social media bio.