Lucasfilm, a unit of Walt Disney, said it has no plans to work in the future with Gina Carano, The Mandalorian star who posted comments on social media that many criticised as anti-Semitic.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” the company said in a February 10 statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
One image she posted on Instagram, since deleted, included that of a half-naked woman being chased down the street during the Holocaust, according to entertainment website Deadline.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbours … even by children,” Carano wrote. “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.”
Her talent agency, United Talent Agency, and publicity firm, ID Public Relations, both said they are no longer working with her.
On Twitter, the hashtag #FireGinaCarano was trending, with users posting comments mostly criticising her.
She could not immediately be reached for comment.
A mixed martial arts fighter who transitioned into a TV career, Carano had been one of the stars of The Mandalorian, the first-live action show based in the Star Wars universe and a runaway hit for the company’s new Disney+ streaming service.
Read the article by Christopher Palmeri in The Sydney Morning Herald.