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In February of 2021, two stars of Disney's The Mandalorian made Nazi and Holocaust analogies in political statements.

Lucasfilm, owned by Disney, fired one of them. And now she's suing.

Gina Carano, Pedro Pascal

In the first instance, Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal made a now-deleted Instagram post likening Trump supporters losing the 2020 election to the Confederacy and Nazi Germany losing in 1865 and 1945. In 2018, Pascal compared Jews in a Nazi concentration camp to 'children in cages' (using a 2010 photo of Palestinian children waiting to be fed at a soup kitchen).

In the second instance, actress Gina Carano, who played former Rebel Alliance soldier Cara Dune – was fired from the show and dropped by her agency after she shared a TikTok post comparing the current divided political climate to the treatment of Jewish people in pre-WWII Germany, saying that "the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews."

The hypocrisy did not go unnoticed:

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lucasfilm had planned on giving Carano her own show before she expressed her opinions.

Carano also drew criticism fro the left for mocking pronouns, putting "boop/bop/beep" in her Twitter bio.

Carano's other 'crime' was mocking masks during the pandemic. 

Now, Carano is suing…

In a Tuesday post on X, Carano laid out what happened, and why she's suing.

Carano goes on to explain that "A couple months ago @ElonMusk tweeted that if you had been fired from using the platform (X) for exercising your right to free speech, he would like to offer these people legal representation."

Some time later, Carino received an email from a lawyer hired by X to explore her case.

Carano then thanked Musk and X, and says she would love to keep acting.