Gina Carano, former star of the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian,” said her co-star Pedro Pascal told her to “just put #transrights in your feed” in an effort to defuse public backlash over a social media post from the early 2020s. He said he was told.
Carano posted “boop/bop/beep” in her Twitter profile after a fan asked her to show support for the transgender community in September 2020, and her controversial comments about pronouns led to her posting a photo on the internet. faced a backlash. She stated that the actress did not intend to insult the transgender community, and that she “thought she was cute, like R2-D2.”
Carano said. hollywood reporter On Thursday, during her controversy, Pascal, who has a transgender sister, tweeted: “Just put #transrights in your feed and they’ll leave you alone.” he told her.
She said she didn’t take his advice, saying, “It’s not my style to hashtag anything. I’m not going to put #TrumpsRights on it either.”
“He knows 1000 percent that I’m not homophobic or transphobic,” she said. “He texted me after Carl Weathers. [another star of The Mandalorian] died. We had a conversation and it was great. ”
Gina Carano pays emotional tribute to the late Carl Weathers, saying he called her after she was fired from Star Wars
“One of the things he said was, ‘Thank you. You and Carl Weathers have always been there for me.'” And he knows what that means, and so do I. I know what that means, and I wish I could tell you why,” she added in THR. “I basically left it with ‘I can’t wait to give you a big hug.'”
Carano also came under fire for other comments on social media about the coronavirus, election fraud and other political comments.
In February 2021, Carano announced that she would no longer appear on the Star Wars show following public backlash over an Instagram post that compared the Jewish experience during the Holocaust to political division in the United States. It was done.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors and even their children. Because history has been edited, most people today believe that Nazi soldiers were beaten in the thousands. To get to the point where Jews could be easily rounded up, the government must first hate their neighbors simply for being Jewish. How is that different from hating someone for their political views? ?,” read a post originally created by another account.
Last month, Carano announced that she was suing the Walt Disney Company for “millions of dollars in lost revenue” for alleged wrongful termination and “discriminatory treatment” based on her political views. X Corporation, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, said it funded the lawsuit as part of its “commitment to free speech.”
Carano’s lawyers argued that “Disney bullied Ms. Carano into conforming to their views on cultural and political issues. When the bullying failed, Disney fired her.” .
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In response to Carano’s announcement, Musk posted, “If you would like to join the lawsuit against Disney, please let me know.”
At the time she was fired, Lucasfilm andStar WarsThe series, which both operate under parent company Disney, said Carano’s social media posts “denigrate people based on their cultural or religious identity are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Pascal and Disney did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
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FOX News’ Hannah Grossman and Nate Day contributed to this report.
