Disney sharply attacks Gina Carano in connection with the lawsuit over the dismissal of “The Mandalorian”: “Disney has had enough”

Disney is slamming former ‘Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano in her wrongful termination lawsuit against the company.

Carano, who was fired in 2021, sued Lucasfilm and its parent company The Walt Disney Co. in February. The former mixed martial arts fighter played bounty hunter Cara Dune on “The Mandarlorian.”

Disney called the actress’ case the “last straw” in a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal district court in Central California, according to court documents obtained by USA TODAY.

The company said in its motion that it “has a constitutional right not to associate its artistic expression with Carano’s speech, and therefore the First Amendment provides a complete defense of Carano’s claims.”

Some have called for Carano to be fired after she shared social media posts mocking trans rights, criticized Covid-19 vaccine mandates and mask-wearing, questioned the 2020 election results and compared the treatment of conservatives to Jews in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust on X-Day, formerly Twitter.

“Carano’s decision to publicly trivialize the Holocaust by comparing the criticism of political conservatives to the extermination of millions of Jews — notably, not “thousands” — was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Disney,” the resignation motion reads. “Disney had had enough.”

The same day Carano posted about the Holocaust, Disney announced it was firing her for using “abhorrent and unacceptable” language against people of different cultural and religious backgrounds.

The company argued in its filing: “Just as a newspaper is entitled to broad deference in selecting the authors it employs to express its editorial positions, a creative production enterprise is entitled to broad deference in deciding which performers it employs to express its artistic message.

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“As Carano’s fame grew with the character, she began to engage with the series’ fans and audiences in a way that Disney believed began to distract from and undermine Disney’s expressive efforts,” the company added.

According to the Associated Press and The Hollywood Reporter, Carano claims in her lawsuit that she was fired because she opposed “an online mob of bullies who demanded that she conform to their ultra-progressive ideology.”

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Gina Carano sues over ‘Mandalorian’: Disney shares ‘final straw’