LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lucasfilm says Gina Carano is no longer in the cast of “The Mandalorian” after many online called for her dismissal on a social media post comparing the experience of Jews during the Holocaust with the US political climate.
A spokesman for the production company said in a statement on Wednesday that Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm, “has no plans for her to be in the future.”
“However, his posts on social media that denigrate people based on their cultural and religious identity are ugly and unacceptable,” the statement said.
Carano fell under heavy criticism after posting that “Jews were beaten on the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even children.”
The actor went on to say: “Because history is edited, most people today do not realize that in order to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily gather thousands of Jews, the government made their neighbors They hate them simply because they are Jews. How is it different to hate someone for their political views? ”
Carano, who played the recurring character Cara Dune in the “Star Wars” series, deleted the post, but it was widely distributed online and stimulated the hashtag #FireGinaCarano to the trend. Her character has appeared in several episodes of the second season of “The Mandalorian”, a series about a bounty hunter and his quest to unite a strong and young user of the Force with a Jedi knight.
Dune, who in his second season is a legislator on a border planet, frequently teams up with the main character to fight an old enemy: the remnants of the evil Galactic Empire.
Carano, a former mixed martial artist whose character Dune used a mixture of heavy weapons and her fists for his best opponents, has been criticized for posts on social media that mocked wearing a mask during the pandemic and alleged electoral fraud. during the 2020 presidential election. She also mocked the use of gender pronouns, listing “beep / bop / boop” in her biography on social media.