Bob Chapek, the CEO of Disney, defended the company’s decision to terminate former Mandalorian star Gina Carano’s contract over her social media posts.
Disney stands “for values that are universal,” Chapek said during a company shareholder meeting Tuesday when he was asked about Carano’s firing. The company distanced itself from the former mixed martial arts fighter–turned–Disney star who played the role of bounty hunter Cara Dune on the first two seasons of the show after she posted a photo likening the political divide to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
GINA CARANO FIRED FROM THE MANDALORIAN AFTER ‘ABHORRENT’ SOCIAL MEDIA POST INVOKING THE HOLOCAUST
Chapek doesn’t “really see Disney as characterizing itself as left-leaning or right-leaning,” but he described the values that they stand for as “respect, decency, integrity, and inclusion and we seek to have the content that we make reflective of the rich diversity of the world we live in. And I think that’s a world we should all live in harmony and peace,” according to Deadline.
A spokesperson for Lucasfilm, which produces the show with Disney, called Carano’s social media posts “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable” at the time of her firing.
Following her dismissal, Carano agreed to a partnership with Ben Shapiro’s the Daily Wire, a conservative publication that has ventured into the production aspect of media.
The two sides are working to develop and produce a movie that Carano will star in.
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“The Daily Wire is helping make one of my dreams — to develop and produce my own film — come true. I cried out and my prayer was answered. I am sending out a direct message of hope to everyone living in fear of cancellation by the totalitarian mob. I have only just begun using my voice which is now freer than ever before, and I hope it inspires others to do the same. They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them,” Carano said.
She previously made remarks about wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, voter fraud in the 2020 elections, and she mocked people who put their preferred pronouns on their social media pages. Carano tweeted a popular photo of August Landmesser, known as the German, in a crowd of Nazis who wouldn’t join his countrymen in a sieg heil salute, in August 2020.
