Actress Gina Carano may be taking on Ronda Rousey on Netflix on May 16, but “Star Wars” fans are eager to see her reprise her role as Cara Dune in a galaxy far, far away. Although she appeared in the first two seasons of “The Mandalorian,” she was fired due to controversial social media posts made during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. After she settled her wrongful termination lawsuit, it seemed possible – albeit unlikely – that she would ever return to the franchise, especially since season 4 of the Disney+ series was reworked into a movie that’s set to hit theaters next month. Although she will not appear in the film, it is possible that she could return to the Lucasfilm franchise, as she recently revealed that she’s already spoken to the new Lucasfilm co-CEO, Dave Filoni, and showrunner Jon Favreau.
Although it’s not clear if she will ever return to a galaxy far, far away, it appears that she is at least on good terms with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau, with whom she previously worked on the first two seasons of “The Mandalorian.”
“I’ve already had a conversation with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau. We got onto a Zoom call. It was really nice,” she said during an interview with Ariel Helwani. “Dave is taking over as CEO of Star Wars. We didn’t miss a beat. Jon Favreau got on Zoom and was really funny. He was like so; where did we leave off?”
Although her “The Mandalorian” costar Carl Weathers has passed away, Carano has received support from another costar: comedian Bill Burr.
Bill Burr Shows Support For His ‘The Mandalorian’ Costar
Following her controversial firing, the comedian called Carano “an absolute sweetheart” and a “super nice f-cking person,” as previously reported by The Blast. “Unless she did some truly horrible sh-t or said overtly racist sh-t, I don’t know. I think there are just too many channels,” he said at the time.
“And then you gotta do sensational sh-t,” he continued. “I don’t know what the f-ck it is. I’m on that f-cking show. Now, I gotta watch what the f-ck I say.”
Bill Burr Called Gina Carano’s Firing ‘Bizarre’
In an April 2022 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Burr opened up about the politics that led to her firing and labeled it “bizarre.”
“I thought it was funny that the liberals proved her point,” he explained. “They just use outrage because they don’t like your politics. As someone who considers himself liberal, it’s disappointing to see the left become how the right used to be when they went after the Dixie Chicks after they criticized George W. Bush.”
“There’s not a lot of people like that — most are just trying not to get in trouble — but there’s this small collection of lunatics — either on the right or the left, at any given moment – that cause hysteria,” he continued. “And now there’s so many [media outlets] that want eyeballs, they make money off advertising, that they give attention to these crazy fringe people.”
“The whole thing with Gina: You can’t chime in when the sh-t’s happening, because then you cause static for other people on the [show]. That somebody’s opinion — or their political beliefs — makes people try to destroy their ability to make a living, it’s f-cking bizarre to me.”
Bill Burr Gets Candid About Cancel Culture
Burr went on to say that what happened to Carano could happen to anyone in the age of social media, pointing out how old tweets can be dug up in order to “cancel” someone who holds different perspectives.
“And I love the whole idea that somebody can go back eight years in somebody’s Twitter feed and be like, ‘What about this?’” he continued. “And nobody says, ‘You had to go back eight years to find something?! Sounds like this is a pretty good person if you had to go back eight f-cking years!’ Meanwhile, there are people who get paroled from prison every day who have done so much worse and they’re allowed to put their lives back together.”
“You can have 20-year wars, you can create synthetic heroin, you can f-cking poison the food supply. You can do all of that sh-t and it’s barely going to read,” he went on. “They did a study the other day that 85 percent of people have plastic in their body – horrifying. Who’s going to be held accountable for that? Nobody. But I could tell you five different topics that if I did jokes about, I would get more in trouble than the people who caused that.”