It’s been a while since we’ve had some updates on Gina Carano’s life and lawsuit against Disney… wait, aren’t those two the same?
Anyway… the former MMA fighter-turned-actress was, as you know, laid off by Disney after her inappropriate and discriminative social media posts that offended the LGBTQ+ community, a thing Disney could not and should not tolerate.Carano’s contract was not renewed, and the actress decided to compare herself to a Holocaust victim because she was apparently “persecuted.” Carano filed a lawsuit against Disney, asking for $75,000 in damages and a court order that would force Disney to rehire her.
We’ve been following this soap opera for a while, and if you thought that things had calmed down because we had not reported on this recently, well – you were wrong.
Gina Carano provided her followers with an update in which she confirmed that the case would, indeed, be going to trial late next year.
Long story short, Gina Carano was cast as Cara Dune in The Mandalorian. And while the role was tailored to her and her acting abilities, Cara Dune was a good character in terms of how she was written and the fans generally liked Carano in the role.
But, then, Carano started posting political and offensive posts on social media, which resulted in Disney not renewing her contract, which she took personally. She had filed a lawsuit in which she is seeking $75,000 in damages and her old job back.
For months, Carano has been giving regular updates on the lawsuit, though it’s unclear how many people were actually interested. She’s also made unnecessary and sometimes offensive comparisons to others, like Scarlett Johansson and Mark Hamill, who have nothing to do with her case.
It turned out, of course, that the root of the issue was in Carano’s conservative ideological views, as well as her support of Donald Trump, which proved that Disney was right when they did not renew her contract.
But, recently, after a longer calm, Carano posted an update on her case against Disney on X:
With a bit of drama, Carano actually wanted to confirm that the case is going to court in September 2025 and that Disney’s request to stop discovery and the proceedings was dismissed.
And sure, that was expected, but what is Carano actually demanding? She keeps claiming that it is not about the money (and yes, $75,000 seems like a fairly small amount that Disney could pay right out of their pockets in cash), but rather about her getting rehired by Disney, but we don’t see how that could happen.
She was not fired, her contract was not renewed; therefore, we don’t see how a court could order a private company to hire someone they did not even fire. On top of that, would the court impose the terms of her rehiring? That also seems implausible. As a Forbes article brilliantly put it:
What are the rules for something like that? Could they hire her back and have her fall into a Sarlaac pit in the first few minutes of her appearance? Would she mandate her amount of screentime via the injunction?
That seems almost impossible to consider. And it’s not even clear that The Mandalorian is coming back for another season after the upcoming Mandalorian and Grogu theatrical movie. Could she force them to put her in that? This part of this whole thing still seems like the biggest reach. Damages would seem more likely, if she did win.
Source: Forbes
And we agree; if Carano does, indeed, win this, she will get the damages she demanded, but we don’t see how the court could force Disney to tailor screenplay and storylines to fit Cara Dune’s desires, especially if The Mandalorian doesn’t even get a fourth season, which doesn’t seem unlikely. And when, as we suspect, it will turn out that it really was just all about the money. Sad.
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