Gina Carano Says Disney Stock Plummeted After They Let Her Go: “They Know It It’s a Big Deal”

After a successful run as Cara Dune in Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian,’ Gina Carano is making headlines for a different reason. The well-known actress is suing Disney over what she claims was an unjust dismissal from the franchise.

Carano’s departure came after a series of controversial social media posts, where she compared anti-vaxxers to Jews and addressed other sensitive issues that clashed with modern sensibilities and Disney’s image. Although officially, her contract was not renewed, many view it as a firing.

Carano sued her former employer, and the lawsuit is financed by Elon Musk, a businessman and staunch fighter for freedom of speech, especially on his recently purchased social media platform X on which the whole incident played out.

The court recently refused Disney’s notion to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that the company failed to prove that they hired the actors on the basis of promoting their good public image. The lawsuit is presumably heading to trial or settlement. Carano is seeking at least $ 75,000 in damages or reinstatement in the franchise. The latter is difficult as her character’s arc and potential spinoff storyline that was planned have been wrapped in the most recent season of ‘The Mandalorian.”

In her recent interview on Shawn Ryan show, Carano spoke about her firing and her overall experiences with Disney:

If I would have been saying and doing the things that I did then now, um, I would be fine. It was because I was so… I was early and I kind of could see where all of this was going. […] What is essential and what is not. Walmart’s more essential than this, you know, Italian restaurant that’s just getting off its feet and has to feed their family, like, what family-owned grocery store or a convenience store?

Nothing was making sense and I could see where this was going it was, the largest, most fraudulent wealth transfer in you know, I think history.

Carano does make a good point that the pandemic in many ways served as the largest wealth transfer in history which kickstarted the horrific financial crisis that the world is now bracing for, but she also claims that Disney stock plummeted after she was fired, seemingly implying that it had something to do with it:

Their stocks plummeted from the day that they let me go and they know it’s a big deal but they are trying to pretend like it’s not.

I guess Carano is free to think that their stock plummeted beacuse of her, but if you’ve been following Disney’s reports regularly you will likely be aware that their stock is suffering beacuse investors are losing confidence that Disney is capable of putting out good projects and managing their existing products.

We’ve recently reported that Disney had almost all the biggest box office losers last year as they struggled to have a profitable movie until the release of ‘Inside Out 2’ and ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ both movies that finally managed to cross $1 billion at the box office.

There’s also that whole Disney+ affair. Disney reportedly incurred over $11.4 billion in operating losses from its streaming investments. The company recently had to cut $7.5 billion in costs, including many original streaming projects, as spending so much on streaming is no longer viable.

Even Disney’s flagship franchise, MCU is suffering tremendous losses, the most notable being ‘The Marvels’ which prompted numerous changes in the way projects are planned and released, and Iger himself stated that the fans can expect lowered creative output.

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