Gina Carano Suing Disney To Force Them To Rehire Her On ‘The Mandalorian’ In Suit Funded By Elon Musk

Former The Mandalorian star Gina Carano is suing Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination in an effort to force them to recast her in the series.

Carano was fired in 2021 after she compared being a Republican in America to being a Jew during the Holocaust, among other controversial comments.

In addition to her Holocaust comments, Carano routinely mocked the government mandates to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and falsely suggested that voter fraud occurred during the 2020 presidential election.

Carano, however, says she was demonized and — despite the fact that the lawsuit only came about once Musk said X would pay for it — “believes whole-heartedly” in her case.

“The truth is I was being hunted down from everything I posted to every post I liked because I was not in line with the acceptable narrative of the time,” Carano said in a Twitter post announcing the lawsuit.

“My words were consistently twisted to demonize & dehumanize me as an alt right wing extremist. It was a bullying smear campaign aimed at silencing, destroying & making an example out of me.”

Back in 2021, in the midst of coping with the fact that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, Carano shared a post on her Instagram Stories that featured a picture from the Holocaust and a caption that read:

“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldier could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them for simply being Jews. How is that any different than hating someone for their political views?”

Carano’s tweet, though, claims that she never did anything of the like.

“Look with your own eyes at what I posted and ask yourself, for example, where did I compare Republicans to the Jewish people in the holocaust? I didn’t,” Carano tweeted on Tuesday, February 6.

The lawsuit is being funded by Elon Musk — not out of his pocket directly, however, but through X — after the collapsing social media company made a promise to “foot the legal bill for users who claim they have been discriminated against due to their activity on the platform,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

After being fired by Lucasfilm, Carano signed a production deal with The Daily Wire, which she said was a “prayer answered” and a “dream come true.”

Carano has made two films with The Daily Wire in the years since Terror of the Prairie and My Son Hunter.