Last week, Disney and Lucasfilm finally said enough was enough and sent Mandorian star Gina Carano packing.
Also the United Talent Agency will no longer be representing her.
Lucasfilm wanted to be in business with Gina Carano, developing a spin off for her Cara Dune character from The Mandolorian into her own series for Disney+.
But damn, Gina was making it so hard.
Gina Carano's posts mocked wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and repeating false right-wing talking points about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election have put her on everyone's bad side. Well, everyone with a brain and an ounce of empathy.
Her latest foray into social media was an Instagram post comparing the current political climate in the United States to Nazi Germany.
Naturally, Ted Cruz leapt to her defense.
“Texan Gina Carano broke barriers in the Star Wars universe: not a princess, not a victim, not some emotionally tortured Jedi. She played a woman who kicked ass & who girls looked up to. She was instrumental in making Star Wars fun again. Of course Disney canceled her.”
It bears repeating as I have done so often on this blog that Ted Cruz is a lying fuck bastard.
Here's some of what got Gina Carano canned.
"Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors...even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”
So Gina thinks the antipathy towards her expressed views puts her in the company of Jews in Nazi fucking Germany?
How is that different? For starters, your views based on lies have cost you your job with Disney and Lucasfilm. Whereas the Jewish people of Nazi Germany paid for their faith and their heritage with confinement to camps for purposes of torture and mass slaughter.
The cost paid by the Jews of Nazi Germany was just a touch higher than your inconvenience of being momentarily unemployed.
Gina Carano is partnering with The Daily Wire, a right-wing website, to develop, produce, and star in an upcoming film. “I cried out and my prayer was answered," Carano said about this deal, casting herself as a kind of quasi-religious martyr, I guess.
Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro praised Carano as “an incredible talent dumped by Disney and Lucasfilm for offending the authoritarian Hollywood Left.”
No, Gina Carano got her ass kicked to the curb for offending basic human decency in an abhorrent repudiation of facts and history.
Gina Carano is not the first actor to wail "woe is me" and compare her plight to being Jewish in Nazi Germany. As I wrote on Thursday, March 23, 2017,
Actor Tim Allen likened being a conservative in Hollywood to 1930s Nazi Germany, a comparison for which Mr. Allen received a sharp and well deserved rebuke. Of course, that response I’m sure only underscores his perspective of persecution.
If Tim Allen equates being a conservative in Hollywood to 1930s Nazi Germany, he should be bear in mind that unlike the Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and more in 1930s Nazi Germany, Tim Allen still gets to walk the streets freely and still be an asshole in public.
The thing is there have always been conservatives in Hollywood and up until recently no one gave much of a damn about that. The problem is that conservatives insist on defending the indefensible since the advent of Donald Trump as President. Even now, as I wrote last week, Republicans continue to run towards the crazy, not as a part of any adherence to conservative values but as a blatant grab for political power.
Conservatives in Hoillywood who use their fame as a platform to promote and espouse the lies of Donald Trump and the deranged Qanon fueled conspiracies need to be challenged.
Gina's perpetuation of Nazi propaganda puts her on the wrong side of human decency and Lucasfilm was wise to show her door.
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On the subject of people in showbiz being on the wrong side of things, the bad stories about Joss Whedon continue to pile on.
Writer Jose Molina (Firefly) said Joss used to brag about making female writers cry.
"'Casually cruel' is a perfect way of describing Joss. He thought being mean was funny. Making female writers cry during a notes session was especially hysterical. He actually liked to boast about the time he made one writer cry twice in one meeting."
Writer and producer Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) said "I would like to validate what the women of Buffy are saying and support them in telling their story. They deserve to be heard. I understand where Charisma, Amber, Michelle and all the women who have spoken out are coming from."
Michelle Trachtenberg followed her initial message of support for Charisma Carpenter with some new info, that there was a rule on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that Joss Whedon could never been alone with her in a room.
Since Michelle Trachtenberg was only 15 years old when she first started on Buffy, I don't won't to think about why that had to be a rule.
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