Actress Gina Carano has been axed from Star Wars series The Mandalorian series following a social media post about Nazis.
The 38-year-old actress came under fire on Wednesday for her post, resulting in a social media trend under the hashtag #FireGinaCarano which showed her now-deleted Instagram post.
Gina, who played the role of bounty hunter Cara Dune in the first two seasons of the Disney+ hit will not be returning a spokesperson for Lucasfilm confirmed, after saying her social media posts were “abhorrent and unacceptable”.
Taking to her Instagram account that has 1.5 million followers, The Disney+ actress shared an image claiming that being a Republican supporter in the United States is similar to “being Jewish during the Holocaust”.
Gina’s repost compared being a Republican to being a Jew during Nazi Germany (Image: Getty Images)
The post read: “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbours… even by children.
“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.
Her controversial post has since been deleted
“How is that any different from hating someone for their political views”
After bosses at Lucasfilm became aware of her post, they issued a statement revealing she had been dismissed from the series.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future, nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Her character was set to have her own spin-off show before producers pulled the plug (Image: Instagram)
She came under fire in November for sharing several tweets to her Twitter page, mocking those who wore facemasks during the coronavirus pandemic and another, claiming that voter fraud had played a part in the 2020 US Election.
The Mandalorian first aired on Disney+ back in November 2019 and was the highest-profile series on the streaming platform.
Since its debut, several spin-off shows are currently being worked on, with Gina’s character set to get her own show – but this was axed due to her November tweets.
Daily Star has approached Gina’s representatives for comment.
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