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Carano was fired from the &34;Star Wars&34; streaming series after igniting backlash with politically charged social media posts in 2021. Lucasfilm and Gina Car

Carano was fired from the "Star Wars" streaming series after igniting backlash with politically charged social media posts in 2021.

Lucasfilm and Gina Carano settle lawsuit over her* Mandalorian* firing after controversial social media posts

Carano was fired from the "Star Wars" streaming series after igniting backlash with politically charged social media posts in 2021.

By Wesley Stenzel

Published on August 7, 2025 05:56PM EDT

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- Disney and Lucasfilm announced the settlement of Gina Carano's lawsuit against the companies.

- Carano was fired from *The Mandalorian* after making a series of controversial posts on social media in 2021.

- The actress filed a lawsuit against the studios in 2024, accusing them of wrongful discharge and sex discrimination.

Lucasfilm has reached an agreement with Gina Carano.

Four years after the actress' firing from *The Mandalorian *in 2021, the studio behind *Star Wars* and its parent company, Disney, announced that the companies have settled the actress' lawsuit against the studios out of court.

"The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with Gina Carano to resolve the issues in her pending lawsuit against the companies," a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement to **.

Gina Carano photographed in 2022.

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"Ms. Carano was always well respected by her directors, co-stars, and staff, and she worked hard to perfect her craft while treating her colleagues with kindness and respect," the statement continued. "With this lawsuit concluded, we look forward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future."

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Representatives for Carano did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

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Carano, who played mercenary Cara Dune on the first two seasons of *The Mandalorian*, was dismissed from the show in February 2021 after she shared numerous controversial social media posts. The actress' posts compared having different political opinions to being Jewish during the Holocaust, shared misinformation about COVID-19, mocked the use of pronouns on social media, and made lofty claims about alleged voter fraud.

Lucasfilm called the posts "abhorrent and unacceptable," and UTA dropped Carano as a client shortly after the backlash began.

The actress filed her lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm in February 2024. The complaint accused the companies of wrongful discharge, refusal to hire, and sex discrimination, and argued that political posts from other *Star Wars* stars like Mark Hamill, Pedro Pascal, and Carl Weathers prompted no response from Disney.

Gina Carano on 'The Mandalorian' season 1.

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The former MMA fighter's lawyers said in a press release that Carano was "bullied and harassed on social media for refusing to support movements and ideologies with which she did not agree and for raising questions on various issues of the day, including such issues as Black Lives Matter, Covid lockdowns, election irregularities and transgender pronouns." The press release also claimed, "Disney and Lucasfilm targeted Carano for harassment, termination, and public defamation — all because she expressed views that did not align with those of Disney and Lucasfilm."

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In a 2024 filing, Disney argued that state law had no power to stop the company from distancing "its artistic expression with Carano's speech." The company also wrote, "Carano's decision to publicly trivialize the Holocaust by comparing criticism of political conservatives to the annihilation of millions of Jewish people — notably, not 'thousands' — was the final straw for Disney."

Carano reflected on the controversy in a 2024 interview with *The Hollywood Reporter*.

"You won't find a perfect person in me, but you will find a person who was doing her absolute best under one of the most aggressive, unnecessary cancellations in Hollywood history," she said. "This has been one of the toughest growth spurts of my life, and I don't plan on wasting what I have learned."

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