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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sam Levin

Disney settles with Gina Carano in lawsuit backed by Elon Musk

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Gina Carano at the premiere of The Mandalorian in Los Angeles in November 2019. Photograph: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Disney has resolved a legal dispute with actor Gina Carano over her firing from The Mandalorian, a spokesperson for Disney unit Lucasfilm said on Thursday.

Lucasfilm removed Carano from the Star Wars streaming show in 2021 over social media posts that the company at the time called “abhorrent and unacceptable” for “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities”.

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