After making her debut in Season 1 of The Mandalorian and exploring her character’s backstory further in the show’s second season, actor Gina Carano will not be returning to the show for a third outing due to her incapability of keeping her “abhorrent” opinions to herself.
Carano took on the role of former Rebel shock trooper Cara Dune, who proved to be a formidable ally to Mando the bounty hunter. Audiences soon discovered that Dune was from the same destroyed home planet of Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), opening up the character’s future in the Star Wars universe to multiple opportunities.
If those opportunities are to be explored however, Lucasfilm will have to recast the role.
A representative for the company said on Wednesday (February 10th, 2021): “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future.”
They continued: “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Carano describes herself as a conservative, but when she shared a post on her Instagram account that compared the treatment of conservative commentators in the public spotlight and their treatment, to that of the Jewish by Nazis during the Holocaust, Lucasfilm deemed she had finally gone too far.
This wasn’t the first time she had been criticised for her ramblings on social media. She inaccurately claimed that there had been meddling in the 2020 presidential election in the United States due to voter fraud, and mocked those who chose to wear masks through the current coronavirus pandemic.
Carano also poked fun at those who decided to put pronouns in their social media names and biographies, despite her Mandalorian co-star Pedro Pascal fighting for it to be common practice.
Clearly a fan of conspiracy theories, Carano will likely have a lot more time on her hands now to delve into the facts of the world, rather than entertaining ridiculous notions that never took place.
Fingers crossed that this is a lesson learned for Carano but, as we’ve seen with many vocal right-wingers on social media, something like this can see them double down on their opinions completely.
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