'I'm Batting 1000 Now': Gina Carano Reacts to George Lucas Comments on Star Wars Discrimination

Gina Carano, a former star of The Mandalorian, has offered some praise to the creator of the Star Wars franchise, George Lucas. She also suggested that new comments made by Lucas are bringing her back "full circle" to her Star Wars franchise dismissal.

Per Variety, Lucas was present at the Cannes Film Festival to be honored with the Palme d'Or. While speaking about Star Wars at the event, the filmmaker rejected criticism that his Star Wars movies didn't have diverse enough characters. He suggested that the only discrimination that was in those films was against the robots like C3P0 and R2-D2. Sharing an article about Lucas' comments on X, Carano joked about how this reminded her of the controversial social media behavior that led to her exit from the franchise.

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"Beep, Bop, Boop comes full circle.I’m batting 1000 now," Carano said. "In all seriousness, respect to George Lucas, he’s a man who has spoken wisdom and created art that changed the game. Legend."

Carano is referring to the way she poked fun at gender pronoun preferences on social media, leading to criticism and calls for Disney to remove her from The Mandalorian. At a time when more and more people were noting their preferred pronouns on social media bios, Carano quipped that she identified as "beep/bop/boop." Carano later apologized and removed the joke, and in more recent interviews, she insisted that she wasn't trying to be transphobic, as others on social media had alleged.

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"I’ve had male publicists with the same size feet as me and we run around in my shoes and try on my dresses,” Carano said in a THR interview. “I was just fed up. So I was like, ‘Fine, I’ll put something in my bio: ‘boop/bop/beep.’ I thought it was cute, like R2-D2.”

Gina Carano Questioned Why the Joke Was So Harmful

On how the joke helped fuel the successful campaign to have her fired, she added, "Boop/bop/beep? Seriously? This was the start of the end for me? A 20-year career, the blood, sweat and tears of fighting? I never compromised myself for a job. I never ended in a bad situation where I did anything inappropriate. I had a clean and clear climb to where I got to and was going to just keep going. And boop/bop/beep was that harmful?”

Carano is currently suing Disney with the backing of Elon Musk, who had offered to foot the legal bill for anyone who'd been fired from a job for utilizing their freedom of speech on X (formerly Twitter). The Cara Dune actress says she was discriminated against with her removal from Star Wars, arguing that male co-stars like Pedro Pascal had also made controversial social media posts without consequences.

Source: X

Star Wars: The Mandalorian

A Star Wars story about a lone Mandalorian gunslinger tasked with protecting a young Force-sensitive alien.

Release DateNovember 12, 2019

CastEmily Swallow, Werner Herzog, Ming-Na Wen, Katee Sackhoff, Dave Filoni, Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Bill Burr, Jon Favreau, Taika Waititi, Temuera Morrison, Nick Nolte, Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, Amy Sedaris

Seasons3

StudioLucasfilm, Disney+

FranchiseStar Wars