Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | News | April 30, 2026
Earlier this week, Gina Carano started making headlines after she revealed on a podcast that she spoke to Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau some time after settling a lawsuit with Disney over her very public firing from The Mandalorian. Carano kept the details sparse, but the gist is the Zoom call was “really nice” with Favreau cracking jokes and everyone catching up.
Honestly, I didn’t expect to see any movement on this front until Carano makes a surprise cameo in The Mandalorian & Grogu or Ahsoka Season 2. One of those is undoubtedly happening, and I’m even more convinced it’s the movie (if not both) because there’s been quite a development. Barely 48 hours after Carano’s talk with Lucasfilm exploded, The Hollywood Reporter rolled out a glowing comeback feature on the MMA fighter/actor. Something is definitely happening here.
The focus bounced back and forth between her upcoming fight with Ronda Rousey and her chat with Filoni and Favreau, which apparently took place in January of this year:
“I think it was, ‘Let’s touch base,’” Carano says of the conversation. “Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni were two people that I always respected, and we went through two seasons together, and we had a great relationship. And even during everything that was happening, Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau were never the bad guys to me.”She would not reveal whether the conversation had touched on a possible return to Star Wars.
“I won’t really disclose any of that,” she says, “but I will say that for me, it was an important conversation. To Zoom, to see each other, to mend whatever, to make sure everybody was good. And everybody was good.”
While Carano played mum about returning as Cara Dune, she notably said she hopes The Mandalorian & Grogu does well at the box office because “Jon Favreau directed it, and he’s a good man.” She also hopes that all of the “turmoil within the Star Wars fandom” comes to an end on both sides. Good luck with that one!
Where things get particularly interesting is where Carano stands with Pedro Pascal. The Mandalorian star’s use of pronouns in his Twitter bio to support his trans sibling is what kicked off Carano’s descent into social media madness, and you’ll be happy to learn that Pascal did not roll out the welcome wagon.
Her relationship with Pedro Pascal, her former co-star, is one of the casualties of the period. Pascal, who never publicly denounced her during the firing, was, she previously said, the castmember who quietly urged her, in the months before, to placate her critics — to say what the online mob wanted to hear.The two last spoke, she says, when their castmate Carl Weathers died in February 2024.
“But no,” she clarifies. “Me and Pedro don’t keep in touch.”
The Mandalorian & Grogu hits theaters over Memorial Day Weekend, so the press machine is about to go into full swing. With this situation in the water, my deepest condolences to Pedro, who will undoubtedly have to field questions about Carano unless his publicist is really, really good. Here’s hoping they are.
