Gina Carano Settles with Disney Over Mandalorian Firing, Thanks Elon Musk

The years-long legal dispute between former The Mandalorian star Gina Carano and the Walt Disney Company is finally over.

On Thursday, Aug. 7, a spokesperson for Lucasfilm, whose parent company is Disney, confirmed that the legal back-and-forth over Carano’s firing from the Star Wars Disney+ series has been settled.

“The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with Gina Carano to resolve the issues in her pending lawsuit against the companies,” the spokesperson said in a statement to PEOPLE.

“Ms. Carano was always well respected by her directors, co-stars, and staff, and she worked hard to perfect her craft while treating her colleagues with kindness and respect,” the statement continues. “With this lawsuit concluded, we look forward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future.”

Carano confirmed the news in a statement posted to her X (formerly Twitter) account the same day.

“I have come to an agreement with Disney/Lucasfilm which I believe is the best outcome for all parties involved.” she began. “I hope this brings some healing to the force.”

“I want to extend my deepest most heartfelt gratitude to Elon Musk, a man I’ve never met, who did this Good Samaritan deed for me in funding my lawsuit,” she continued, thanking Musk “for backing my case and asking for nothing in return.”

Carano went on to thank her lawyers, God, and her followers for sticking by her side.

“I am excited to flip the page and move onto the next chapter,” she went on to say. “My desires remain in the arts, which is where I hope you will join me. Yes, I’m smiling.

Earlier in the day, Carano took to the social media platform with a cryptic message, writing, “… and the truth shall set you free.”

Carano faced backlash and calls for her firing from The Mandalorian in late 2020 and early 2021 due to controversial social media posts.

The major inciting incident saw Carano sharing a post from another account that seemingly compared the treatment of conservatives in the U.S. during the COVID pandemic to that of Jewish people during Nazi-era Germany.

This came after the actress changed her social media bio to read “beep/bop/boop” — which some believed was an insensitive reference to preferred pronouns, which are often included on profile pages.

Carano reiterated in multiple posts that she was “not against trans lives at all” and that including “beep/bop/boop” had “zero to do with trans people.”

Because of these instances, there were calls for Carano to be removed from the Star Wars franchise, with the hashtag “#FireGinaCarano” trending.

Lucasfilm confirmed in February 2021 that Carano was “not currently employed … and there are no plans for her to be in the future.”

“Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable,” the company added at the time.

Carano sued her former employer for wrongful termination and discrimination in 2024.

Disney, the parent company of Lucasfilm, argued in a motion filed in April 2024 that the company had a First Amendment right to fire Carano, stating in the filing — which called for the dismissal of Carano’s lawsuit — that Disney has “a constitutional right not to associate its artistic expression with Carano’s speech.”

Elsewhere in the filing, Disney said it fired Carano due to her social media posts “blaming pandemic-related closure orders and vaccine mandates for causing widespread suicides and murders, attacking the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election, and mocking people who identify their pronouns to show support for transgender rights.”

The company’s “final straw,” however, was a repost in which they accused Carano of having “publicly trivialize[d] the Holocaust by comparing criticism of political conservatives to the annihilation of millions of Jewish people,” according to the filing.

Disney argued, citing a past court decision, that “a state cannot force an employer engaged in speech to speak through an employee whose own views or public profile could compromise the employer’s own message.”

Carano fired back with a statement posted to X at the time.

“Disney has confirmed what has been known all along, they will fire you if you say anything they disagree with, even if they have to MISREPRESENT, MALIGN, and MISCHARACTERIZE you to do it,” she wrote.

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“They are now on record letting everyone who works for them know that Disney will take any chance they get to control what you say, what you think or they will attempt to destroy your career. Glad we cleared that up,” she continued. “The First Amendment does not allow Disney to wantonly DISCRIMINATE, which is what they have done in my case and frankly have now admitted they did. If you ever wanted to know what today’s ‘Disney values’ are, they just told you.”