Gina Carano Teases Potential Star Wars Return After 'Really Nice' Conversation With Lucasfilm Following Disney Lawsuit

It seems a instrumentality to Star Wars could beryllium successful the cards for Gina Carano pursuing what she said was a "really nice" speech with Lucasfilm.

The MMA fighter-turned-actor spoke astir her arguable past and instrumentality to the spotlight during a caller interrogation with sports writer Ariel Helwani. The speech saw her speech astir her upcoming combat with Ronda Rousey and the events that led to her being fired from the postulation far, acold away.

Carano joined Star Wars arsenic Cara Dune successful The Mandalorian Season 1 and stuck astir for Season 2 earlier abruptly leaving the amusement successful 2021. Lucasfilm had chosen to region her from the spinoff story’s crippled pursuing societal media posts that saw her comparing the persecution of Jewish radical successful Nazi Germany to being a modern-day Republican.

Gina Carano. Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage.

Her actions were capable to spawn a #FireGinaCarano run earlier she was rapidly fired, with Lucasfilm saying, astatine the time, that determination were "no plans" for her to beryllium employed successful the future. The Star Wars institution added that "her societal media posts denigrating radical based connected their taste and spiritual identities are abhorrent and unacceptable." Carano yet responded with a suit funded successful portion by Elon Musk successful 2024. A colony was aboriginal reached successful 2025.

"With this suit concluded," a Disney typical said successful a connection to Variety, "we look guardant to identifying opportunities to enactment unneurotic with Ms. Carano successful the adjacent future."

It seems the adjacent aboriginal could beryllium person than galore expected, arsenic Carano said she’s already spoken with Lucasfilm leads Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau. Details astir the speech oregon wherefore it happened successful the archetypal spot stay a mystery, but Carano teases that it was "really nice."

"Who invites you back? Is determination 1 person?" Carano said regarding her vocation pursuing the controversy. "I’ve already had a speech with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau. Really lovely. After we settled the lawsuit, we got connected a Zoom call. It was truly nice. Dave Filoni is taking implicit CEO of Star Wars, and it’s similar we didn’t adjacent miss a beat. Jon Favreau was truly funny. He got connected the Zoom and was like, 'So, wherever did we permission off?' We hadn’t spoke for a while."

Carano volition instrumentality to the ringing to combat Rousey May 16 but has mostly remained retired of the spotlight since leaving The Mandalorian. Her astir notable relation since has seen her pb Terror connected the Prairie, a 2022 movie distributed and produced by blimpish media institution The Daily Wire.

The Mandalorian yet returned without Carano for Season 3 successful 2023. In lieu of a 4th season, a movie titled Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is acceptable to premiere May 22, 2026. It’s unclear if a due Season 4 volition ever materialize oregon if Carano volition beryllium attached.

Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage.

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