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Polybius

(20,725 posts) Thu Aug 7, 2025, 09:01 PM Aug 7

Entertainment Gina Carano and Disney settle lawsuit in wrongful termination case

Source: CBS News

Actress Gina Carano, Lucasfilm and its parent company, The Walt Disney Company, have reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit over her 2021 firing from "The Mandalorian."

In the lawsuit, filed in February 2024 in federal court in California, Carano argued that she was wrongfully terminated and discriminated against following controversial posts she made on social media.

Carano was terminated in 2021 following posts on social media where she compared the divided American political climate to Nazi Germany. She was also accused of mocking transgender people and mocking mask-wearing during the COVID pandemic.

"I have come to an agreement with Disney/Lucasfilm @disney @Lucasfilm which I believe is the best outcome for all parties involved," Carano said Thursday in a statement. "I hope this brings some healing to the force."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gina-carano-mandalorian-actress-disney-settle-lawsuit/

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Entertainment Gina Carano and Disney settle lawsuit in wrongful termination case (Original Post) Polybius Aug 7 OP

Great. She got paid. Aristus Aug 7 #1

Again: Wasn't fired. They just chose not to renew her contract. Grokenstein Aug 8 #2

Yup Polybius Aug 8 #3

They are knuckling under Miguelito Loveless Aug 8 #5

Who? Never heard of her. (Fortunately, apparently.) Oopsie Daisy Aug 8 #4

Appears in The Mandalorian and Deadpool. And some mega-flop western whose title I've forgotten. Grokenstein Aug 8 #7

This whole thing sucks. Jose Garcia Aug 8 #6

Aristus

(70,658 posts)

1. Great. She got paid.

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Thu Aug 7, 2025, 10:13 PM

Aug 7

Now she can go on being a rotten human being. Good for her…

Grokenstein

(6,125 posts)

2. Again: Wasn't fired. They just chose not to renew her contract.

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 12:34 AM

Aug 8

Is she gonna get a payout every time her box-office-poisonous ass is turned down for a role? I thought that was the sort of privileged sense of entitlement WE were supposed to be guilty of! /s

Polybius

(20,725 posts)

3. Yup

Reply to Grokenstein (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 04:56 AM

Aug 8

I can't understand why they settled.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,149 posts)

5. They are knuckling under

Reply to Polybius (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 11:03 AM

Aug 8

to the Orange Regime. More profitable than ethics.

Oopsie Daisy

(6,569 posts)

4. Who? Never heard of her. (Fortunately, apparently.)

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 06:19 AM

Aug 8

Grokenstein

(6,125 posts)

7. Appears in The Mandalorian and Deadpool. And some mega-flop western whose title I've forgotten.

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 04:52 PM

Aug 8

I like her in Deadpool, because she plays a vicious scumbag who gets absolutely pulped by two of the sort of people she hates in real life.

Jose Garcia

(3,282 posts)

6. This whole thing sucks.

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 11:24 AM

Aug 8

I really liked her character. She was cleary different that the usual skinny brunette (Leia, Ray, Qi'ra, Jyn Erso) Star Wars heroine. If they can recast Jimmy Smitts, they could have recast Carano.

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