Gina Carano's 'soul was just crushed' after 'The Mandalorian' firing
Five years after her controversial removal from "The Mandalorian," Gina Carano opens up on the impact of that period in her life.
In an alternate 2026, Gina Carano is still a flourishing Hollywood actress and perhaps the star of her own "Mandalorian" spinoff show, with her mixed martial arts career even further behind her. In actual 2026, Carano is on the verge of her first MMA fight in nearly 17 years as she prepares to meet former UFC champion Ronda Rousey in the headliner of a Netflix live-streamed event May 16 at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif. Why the alternate reality didn't get a chance to play out for Carano – and a big reason why she's fighting Rousey – is because of, in her own words, the "cancellation" she experienced.
Back in 2021, while she played the role of Cara Dune on the popular Disney+ series from the "Star Wars" universe, "The Mandalorian," Carano came under fire a social media post in which she likened the experience of Republicans in the U. S. to Jews in Nazi Germany.
Those remarks came on the heels of other online posts in which Carano mocked transgender rights and gender pronoun preference, criticized vaccines and mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, and questioned the validity of the 2020 U. S. presidential election.
Carano was swiftly removed from "The Mandalorian" by Lucasfilm, which produced the show, and it essentially signaled the end of her acting career. Carano later filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm, which reached a settlement in August 2025. What Gina Carano has to say about controversy now With her fight against Rousey just over a month away, Carano appeared Wednesday on "The Ariel Helwani Show" and opened up on the impact of that tumultuous period of her life.