The actress claims the entertainment giant discriminated against her for voicing certain opinions on hot-button issues.
Billionaires are assholes.
Gina Carano Sues Disney Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing In Lawsuit Funded by Elon Musk
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
ryan213@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
They’re fucking, aren’t they?
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 9 months ago
Haha! Musk wishes he was.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In an escalation of a standoff over her firing in The Mandalorian, Gina Carano is suing Disney and Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination in a lawsuit that opens another front in the battlefield for influence over Hollywood that has drawn in corporate America.
According to the complaint, Disney and Lucasfilm harassed and defamed Carano for refusing to conform with their viewpoints on issues relating to Black Lives Matter, preferred pronouns and disproven claims of election interference.
The suit says Disney required Carano, who was paid $25,000 per episode as a guest actor and later negotiated a one-time $5,000 bonus, to meet with representative of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination and demanded a public apology.
Carano also alleges Disney engaged in a “post-termination smear campaign,” citing the abrupt removal of an episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls in which she appeared from the “show’s scheduled lineup” in an “effort to malign” her.
At-will employees, who make up the majority of private sector workers, often face an uphill climb in obtaining damages for terminations over problematic online posts deemed to be offensive and in violation of workplace policies.
Amid a hardening position on issues such as gender politics and race in the Republican Party, Ron DeSantis made “holding woke corporations accountable” one of the main pillars of his failed presidential campaign.
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natecox@programming.dev 9 months ago
Remember folks, it’s a crime to force a baker to bake a cake for a gay person, but totally fine to force a company to employ a bigot against their will.
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 9 months ago
I think the point here is to force Disney to not fire someone for political beliefs, not to force Disney to hire someone. Pretty sure Gina Carano said she'd never work with Disney again after what happened, which is one reason why I'm pretty surprised by this news.