Gina Carano on being fired from The Mandalorian: “It became very popular to hate me and pick on me”
nme.comDisney+‘s The Mandalorian saying “It became very popular to hate me and pick on me.”The former MMA champion turned actress played the lead role of Cara Dune in The Mandalorian, a role which was written by series creator John Favreau with her specifically in mind.
Her stint on the series didn’t last long as roughly a year after the show’s premiere, Carano was fired from the show.She was let go from the Disney+ Star Wars spinoff series after making posts on social media that the company deemed “abhorrent and unacceptable”.
She was made aware she was being laid off at the same time everyone else did when Lucasfilm shared a statement that revealed she was no longer employed by them.“I just laid down and cried and cried,” Carano recalled in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I curled into a fetal position.
It’s not that I didn’t think that something like that could happen. It was that I couldn’t imagine they would put out this horrendous statement about me after working with me — the most powerful entertainment company in the world saying that about me.”The actor previously faced calls to be fired from the show after posting anti-mask tweets, unfounded claims of voter fraud and other posts that were criticised as transphobic.
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