Actress Gina Carano, who filed a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm last week for wrongful termination and sex discrimination, revealed she has even more evidence to present.
Gina Carano is Cara Dune and Carl Weathers is Greef Karga in Lucasfilm’s THE MANDALORIAN, season two, exclusively on Disney+. ©.
Speaking with radio personality and political commentator Glenn Beck, Carano shared, “For the longest time, for the last couple of years, I was just distraught trying to rebuild my life, running into all sorts of problems of trying to recreate my career. I had to give it to God and say, ‘Alright, you’ve got me in life. I’m going to keep going and I have to let this go and give it to you. And whatever justice I get, I know you’re working behind the scenes for me.'”
“And it was almost as soon as I did that I got an email from a lawyer that was hired by Elon Musk and X to inquire about my case. And then I was just so excited and I emailed him back immediately. And I just educated them and I sent them everything I have to date and I have a lot more to send them,” she asserted. “They are wonderful and they are just excited. And they couldn’t believe- they were dumbfounded about how this happened.”
Carano would go on to detail what she was subjected to after The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm fired her from The Mandalorian.
She shared, “I’ve been trying to put on a really brave face for the last couple of years. But I cannot even begin to describe. I couldn’t leave my house for seven days. I was being stalked. I was being harassed. I had to keep all of my blinds closed and I had actually lost all hearing.”
“It was a very interesting, random thing,” she elaborated. “I lost all of the hearing. as soon as I was canceled, my hearing got clogged, and I could only hear 5%.”
She later added, “It was just at the worst time possible. They definitely put my life in danger at that moment.”
(Left to right) Gina Carano is Cara Dune, Pedro Pascal is the Mandalorian and Carl Weathers is Greef Karga in THE MANDALORIAN, season two, exclusively on Disney+
As for what she hopes to accomplish with the lawsuit, Carano stated, “I hope that this makes a change. I hope that it makes a change in this industry and it makes a change in people’s hearts.”
“The post that I got fired for originally or what they said I got fired for was never supposed what the media and all of them twisted it into,” she continued. “It was supposed to be ‘Do not demonize your neighbor. We need to look at each other as human beings.'”
She explained, “Because the internet is one thing, but when you get outside and you get around people, there’s so much love and there’s so much- it’s not the internet. The internet is false. It’s a lot of people hiding behind brave ideas and false accounts. … We all bleed red. We’re all just kind of on this earth together.”
Carano then declared, “So I hope that the outcome for this case is just to make everybody kind of be truly, truly an inclusive industry in Hollywood. And make it that much [more] difficult to do what happened to me to happen to the next person.”
Gina Carano is Cara Dune in THE MANDALORIAN, season two, exclusively on Disney+.
A little later in the interview, Carano suggested Disney should apologize, “They’re so good at telling everybody how to apologize and get on their knees and say sorry. It’s like lead by example in this case. It wouldn’t be hard to look at my case and say, “Hey, you know what, we did wrong there, let’s make it right. And then let’s start reaching out to- really inclusive, like all people.’ It doesn’t mean that they have to follow any type of political side. They can just really include and appreciate the fan base that they had that has just been completely betrayed by them.”
“So, I don’t understand in those meetings how it’s just not like, ‘You know what we did wrong. Let’s face up to it. Let’s do something right here. And let’s get our conservative viewers back. It seems like it would just be a no-brainer,” she added.
Carano concluded her interview with Beck saying, “I really hope people attention to it and blow it out of the water and just make sure that we’re going to make it easier for the next generation and the people, the younger people behind me.”
(L-R): Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff), Cara Dune (Gina Carano), Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) and Koska Reeves (Mercedes Varnado) in Lucasfilm’s THE MANDALORIAN, season two, exclusively on Disney+. © 2020 Lucasfilm Ltd. & ™. All Rights Reserved.
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