LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lucasfilm says Gina Carano is no longer part of the cast “The Mandalorian”.
A spokesman for the production company said in a statement on Wednesday that Carano was not currently employed by Lucasfilm, with “no plans that she will be in the future”. ‘
“Nevertheless, her social media messages that demean people based on their cultural and religious identity are abominable and unacceptable,” the statement said.
Carano came under heavy criticism after she posted that “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children.”
The actor went on to say: ‘Because history is being edited, most people today do not realize that the government first had to make their own neighbors hate them because they were Jews, to the point that Nazi soldiers could easily kill thousands of Jews. could summarize. How is it different from hating someone for their political views? ”
Carano, who played the recurring character Cara Dune in the “Star Wars” series, removed the post, but it was widely shared online and prompted the #FireGinaCarano hashtag to tend. Her character appears in several episodes of the second season of ‘The Mandalorian’, a series about a treasure hunter and his quest to unite a powerful, young user of the Force with a Jedi knight.
Dune, who in the second season is a jurist on a frontier planet, regularly works with the title character to fight an old 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 for the best opponents, has been criticized for social media posts mocking the wearing of mask during the pandemic and alleged voter fraud during the presidential election in 2020. She also mocks the use of gender pronouns and mentions ‘peep / bop / boep’ in her social media bio.