Gina Carano lost million-dollar Star Wars deal over one social media post
Gina Carano will this weekend return to MMA, the sport where she made her name, to fight Ronda Rousey live on Netflix.
The Netflix bout, promoted by Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions, will see Carano in a dream bout between two of the major pioneers of women’s MMA.
Before returning to the fight game however Carano had a burgeoning TV and Film career, appearing as a major supporting character in The Mandalorian Cara Dune.
Her role in the show was so successful that Carano was reportedly set to star in her own spin-off show Rangers of the New Republic where she was set to earn millions.
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This all came crashing down however with a post from Carano on Instagram that saw her fired from her role and, whilst she has since sued Disney over her firing, her acting career never recovered.
Carano was already courting controversy, but one Instagram post took things too far
Carano was fairly active on Twitter, mocking LGBTQIA+ campaigners for putting pronouns in their social media biography and putting ‘beep/bop/boop’ as in her own bio. Carano also made multiple anti-Vax posts on her Instagram and Twitter.
She received criticism for this online, but this didn’t translate to anything effecting her job, but she took things too far when she posted an Instagram story comparing being a modern-day US Republican to being a Jewish person in Nazi Germany.
The actor and former fighter reposted a meme onto her Instagram story in 2021 which showed a Jewish woman being chased during the Holocaust by men with bats.
The caption to the meme shared on her story said: “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbours.... even by children.
“Because history is edited, most people today don't realise that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbours hate them simply for being Jews.
“How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”
Carano took the post down but was fired just hours later, with Lucasfilm saying in a statement: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future.
“Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Carano sued Disney and settled out of court, and has spoken about being ‘cancelled’
Carano sued Disney for wrongful termination and sexual discrimination, claiming that two male co-stars made similar posts and were not fired.
Speaking on the Ariel Helwani show she said that it was bizarre no longer being known as a fighter, Carano said: “It got to that point where everybody's like, ‘Wait, the actress is fighting Rhonda’" And like they're like, ‘Wow.’
“I’ve worked my whole life to become an actress right after fighting and now I'm going back to fighting.
“It's like somebody pulls the rug out from under you and you fall and you break your neck. You really see who people truly are to you in that moment.
“I had so much anxiety in my body that my face hurt. Like my skin hurt me.
“My heart was broken. I felt like there was such injustice in what happened.”
Topics: Ronda Rousey, MMA, Netflix, The Mandalorian, Celebrity
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