Disney Defends Firing Gina Carano for ‘Trivializing the Holocaust’

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | April 10, 2024 |

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | April 10, 2024 |

Back in February, Gina Carano filed a lawsuit against Disney where she alleged “unlawful termination” and “discrimination” after being fired from The Mandalorian. To the surprise of no one, it’s not going well for her. Disney has already asked the court to throw out Carano’s suit and aggressively defended its decision to part ways with the Cara Dune actress after she made a post “trivializing the Holocaust.” Disney argued that it has a constitutional right not to be associated with such rhetoric, and that it was the final straw in a series of controversial statements by Carano. More importantly, Elon Musk is funding this whole endeavor, so God willing, he’s bleeding a ton of money from this stupid stunt. If Carano loses on his dime, it really doesn’t get better than that. (The Daily Beast)

Anya Taylor-Joy’s CinemaCon dress is hopefully an indication of what Furiosa’s press tour fashion will be like. (Lainey Gossip)

Welcome to the latest episode of “Donald Trump Tells Jewish and Black People How They Should Act.” (Wonkette)

Kayleigh wrote about the glorious return of the horny historical drama. (PrimeTimer)

A deep dive into recreating and evolving the music for the absolutely slamming X-Men ‘97? Don’t mind if I do! (The Verge)

From Jen: Eventually he’ll fail us, but for now John Cena continues to be the better human turned wrestler turned actor. (Out)

Meghan McCain is now bragging that she yelled at her co-workers on The View for being out of touch with the working class. The same millionaire Meghan McCain whose entire claim to fame is shrieking on TV that she’s the daughter of a United States senator — I always forget which one — and occasionally acknowledging the existence of her mother, who hails from some of the oldest money in America. Please, do tell us more of the lowly pauper and your daily walks amongst the rabble. (EW)

From Petr: Russian honeytraps are useless against French spies. Their wives already know. (Telegraph)

We’re getting a Heroes reboot for some reason. I dunno, beats me. (Deadline)

From Nate: Ambulatory thumb and GOP Kentucky House candidate strangled a teen in a Walmart and is now banned from all of them. (Joe.My.God.)

Elderberrywine recommends The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, though it goes off the rails in the middle-there are polar bears. “Well, this is certainly one hot mess of a novelette, and it is deliciously illustrated in sketchy (in all meanings of the word) drawings by the novelist herself, a surrealistic painter.” Which books are worth reading despite a not great middle? (Cannonball Read 16)

Speaking of the X-Men theme song…

The lyrics to the X-Men cartoon theme song are pure poetry. pic.twitter.com/mUwkk1E6Xs

— Tommy Wall (@Tommyjwall) April 20, 2021