Gina Carano Defends Her Career Choices After Her Latest Film Grosses Only $13K in Theaters

When The Mandalorian premiered back in 2019 on Disney+, actress Gina Carano, a former MMA fighter, starred as Cara Dune, a fighter with the Rebel Alliance who teamed up with the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) to protect Grogu, a.k.a. The Child. But then in 2021 she went on social media to promote several controversial theories which her employer, Lucasfilm, deemed “abhorrent and unacceptable,” and Carano was fired from the show.

Her character was popular, and there was even talk of a Cara Dune spinoff, but that came to a screeching halt when she chose to vocalize her controversial and often false, highly politicized theories.

Since then, Carano’s career has taken real turn, and today she finds herself defending her choices after several Twitter users have called out her latest film, Terror On The Prairie, for making a paltry $13,000 at the box office. (An initial tweet claimed the film made $804, but that number has since been updated.) Despite all of that, Carano has no regrets.

Journalist Richard Newby tweeted, “I’ll never stop laughing at the fact that she could’ve had her own Star Wars series, toys, books, comics, apparel. She was that close. She didn’t just fumble the bag, she dumped it out, put it over her head and cut off her air supply.”

Carano responded, “I didn’t fumble the bag I just didn’t go along with the sell out narrative, the online mob couldn’t handle that so they petitioned to have me fired & won. I’m not sorry for that. I stood for what I believe the right thing to do was & the more time that goes by the better I feel.”

Terror On The Prairie co-stars fellow conservative actors Samaire Armstrong, Nick Searcy and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone, as well as Daniel Day-Lewis‘s son, Gabriel Kane Day-Lewis. The film tells the story of a woman trying to make a life for herself and her family on the frontier in Montana in the 1870s, when their peace is threatened by a gang of outlaws.

The film was produced by the conservative media company Daily Wire, which is run by Ben Shapiro, and has only been released digitally, which is how Carano defends its lackluster profits. Still, she seems less interested in the box office performance than sticking to her political guns, saying, “The genuine bag fumble is sell out journalists like you who sold out America and stopped asking questions to be liked by a fickle manipulated mob. That is what you valued and that will be your legacy.”