As Gina Carano dials into our Zoom call, she is celebrating her 44th birthday. Not actively celebrating – there’s no music, no balloons, no oversized badge pinned to a dress – but today is the day. Seated at a desk in a modestly-decorated room, sporting a black jumper, she seems at peace. They say life begins at 40, but at 44, she is about to start her fighting life all over again.
Still, it was in the year she turned 40 that Carano got married, unbeknownst to the wider world, and this fresh decade has already been characterised by one of the most fraught chapters in her life: there was the tweet, the firing, and then the lawsuit.
