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Gina Carano claims she faced ‘a harassment smear campaign’ over her social media posts
Actress Gina Carano sued Disney and Lucasfilm after she was fired in 2021 for a social media post in which she compared being a Republican to being Jewish during the Holocaust.
The lawsuit is funded by Elon Musk, who put out an open call on his X platform for others to join the lawsuit.
Ms Carano is seeking $75,000 (£60,000) in damages. She is also asking the court to force Lucasfilm to recast it.
Representatives for the defendants were not immediately available for comment.
Carano, 41, a former MMA fighter, played Cara Dune in the first two seasons of the Disney+ show The Mandalorian.
During that time, he frequently tangled online with leftists.
But critics demanded she be fired after she shared a post on her Instagram account in February 2021 equating the Nazis’ persecution of Jews with the political climate Republicans face today.
“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily arrest thousands of Jews, the government first made its own neighbors hate them simply for being Jewish,” the post said.
“How is that different from hating someone for their political opinions?”
That same day, Lucasfilm, the production company behind the show, as well as UTA, the talent agency that had represented her for nearly two years, dropped Ms. Carano.
In a statement at the time, a Lucasfilm spokesperson said that “her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
UTA is not named in Tuesday’s court filing, which alleges the Walt Disney Company was to blame for the agency abandoning it.
He 59-page civil lawsuitfiled in federal court in California, lays out allegations of wrongful termination and retaliation in a narrative loaded with Star Wars references.
“A short time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, the 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 did not fully comply would not be tolerated.” the complaint begins.
Carano claims she was fired “because she dared to express her own opinions… and stood up to the mob of online bullies who were demanding that she comply with their extreme progressive ideology.”
The lawsuit alleges that the actress was treated differently than two male co-stars, who wrote or shared online posts slandering Republicans as Nazis, but faced no sanctions.
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“Artists do not give up our rights as American citizens when we go to work,” she added, thanking Musk and those who have supported her.
The billionaire shared her statement and wrote, “Let us know if you want to join the lawsuit against Disney.”
Musk has previously promised to financially support those who face discrimination for their posts on X.
In a statement, a spokesperson for his company said it was “proud” to support Carano’s lawsuit as part of its commitment to free speech.