Actor Gina Carano sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday over her February 2021 firing from The Mandalorian, claiming she was let go from the science fiction bounty hunter series for expressing conservative views on social media.
Carano, 41, filed the federal lawsuit in California with the help of the social media platform X. The complaint alleges her wrongful termination from the “Star Wars” galaxy Disney+ streaming series after two seasons over a post likening the treatment of American conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
“A short time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy in thought, speech, or action was acceptable in their empire, and that those who dared to question or failed to fully comply would not be tolerated,” the lawsuit’s introduction states. “Carano was terminated from her role as swiftly as her character’s peaceful home planet of Alderaan had been destroyed by the Death Star.”
The lawsuit alleges she was fired because she “dared voice her own opinions” against an “online bully mob who demanded her compliance with their extreme progressive ideology.”
Disney and Lucasfilm have not filed a response to the
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