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17 February 2021

Mandalorian fans start campaign for Lucy Lawless to replace Gina Carano on show

As Carano claims she refused to use a Lucasfilm-written apology over pronouns tweet

By Jamie Tabberer

Words: Jamie Tabberer; pictures: Syfy/Disney+

Fans of Disney+ show The Mandalorian have started a social media drive for Lucy Lawless to replace Gina Carano on the hit series.

Martial arts expert Carano played Cara Dune on the the first two seasons of the Star Wars-themed show.

However, she was fired last week over “abhorrent and unacceptable” social media posts comparing political censorship and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

“Can they just cast Lucy?”

Said one Mandalorian fan on Twitter: “Can they just cast Lucy Lawless as Cara Dune and pretend it was her the whole time?”

The tweet has amassed over 25k likes and counting.

Another added: “What if Lucy Lawless took over as Cara Dune and we all just pretended she was always Cara Dune?”

A Lucasfilm rep said in a statement to PEOPLE last week: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future.

“Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

In the since-deleted post, Carano said (as per Variety): “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.”

Carano this week addressed her Mandalorian departure for the first time, while also claiming she “found out through social media, like everyone else, that I had been fired.”

She also alleged to journalist Bari Weiss that she refused to use a Lucasfilm-written apology for her use of the pronouns ‘boop/bop/beep’ on social last year, widely interpreted as mocking trans people.

“Earlier on last year before The Mandalorian came out, they wanted me to use their exact wording for an apology over pronoun usage,” she said. “I declined and offered a statement in my own words. I made clear I wanted nothing to do with mocking the transgender community, and was just drawing attention to the abuse of the mob in forcing people to put pronouns in their bio.”

Lawless found fame and legions of LGBTQ fans in Xena: Warrior Princess. 

Attitude has approached Disney+ for comment.

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