Disney fired Gina Carano for her political views. She had tweeted a few things others found offensive in what is a fairly standard cancel culture moment. People on Twitter freak out, storm the gates, corporations buckle. Well, over at the Daily Wire they decided to uncancel Carano by signing her up for an exclusive movie deal where she would produce her own films. Despite how my readers feel about Ben Shapiro (and the left in general) this is fairly badass. The only way out of a bottleneck is competition.
If entertainment is going to be under the thumb of Big Corporate then that is going to significantly narrow what kinds of films can be made, who can star in them, etc. Studios now hold less power than Big Tech, so does the government. And, if they are going to censor and ban people to suit their own agendas – whatever they may be – the only way to fight them is to build things outside the system. This is already happening in journalism, with Substack being the one site that will stand up for its writers against the cancellation machine. There are alternatives to YouTube in the fledgling stage. While it’s true that big sites still control the vast majority of eyeballs, there is some hope that competition will help loosen the strings a little.
When I first heard that Daily Wire was going to branch out to distribution and production to challenge the more left-leaning studio system, such as it is now, I knew there would be people out there tempted to join them just to get work that isn’t heavily monitored by the thought police. But I also know that the Daily Wire is a conservative site – and I would imagine that would be a deal-breaker for many of them, feeling they might risk their “liberal cred” and as we know, that can end careers, friendships, reputations. Ah, the tolerant left. But I also thought it would be great if other people thought outside the box like this. One thing streaming has done is make it much easier to produce and deliver films, especially if you have your own audience, as the Daily Wire does. Their podcasts and YouTube shows are watched and listened to by millions.
Of course, they will be treated fairly badly by the press. We can call this the Hillbilly Elegy effect. When they first distributed Run Hide Fight because Hollywood refused to, there was an idea that it was an NRA propaganda movie. It turned out to be no such thing. I would imagine that the press, Hollywood, and Twitter will treat any movie coming out of there the same way. I would suggest keeping an open mind on that score and remembering that it isn’t the job of art, or the press, to take a partisan view. It isn’t the job of art to back up a specific political ideology. Of course, we know that they do. But we somehow managed to survive for decades with movies that were made to entertain people across all spectrums. Competition like this will open things up – and that is what we want right now, believe me.
Here is what Megan Basham writes of the new project:
Six months after leaving the hit Disney Plus series “The Mandalorian,” actress Gina Carano is announcing her first project — an action thriller for The Daily Wire reminiscent of classics like “True Grit,” “Duel,” and “Breakdown.”
Screenwriter and veteran horror writer Eric Red (“The Hitcher,” “Near Dark”) is basing the script on his novel “White Knuckle,” a story about a long-haul truck-driver who crosses the country murdering women. Carano will star as the one woman who managed to escape him. Traumatized, but haunted by the thought of his future victims, she hires another trucker to help her track him down and end his killing spree.
Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk of Bonfire Legend will join Carano in producing the film, along with horror author Tony Timpone. Voltage Pictures will handle international distribution.
In an exclusive comment to The Daily Wire, Carano said that she’s eager to get moving on the next stage of her career that now includes working behind the camera.
Full story here.
IN END US FILM GOING PUBLIC LOSE OUT! THIS IS EQUIVALENT OF A EMERGING EARTHQUAKE THAT BOUT TO UNLEASH IT FURY TO UNPRECEDENTED DESTRUCTIVE LEVELS TO TRADITONAL FILM INDUSTRY MODEL.. IN TERMS OF CREATIVE INTEGRITY, AND AT THE EXPENSE POTENTIALLY OF THE PUBLIUC INTEREST NOW MORE THAN EVER IT VITALLY IMPORTANT THOUGH I DONT HOLD MUCH FAITH JUST SLIVER OF FOOLS HOPE THE ACADEMY STARE DOWN THEIR OWN VESTED PRO- LEFT POLITICAL INTERESTS AND STAND UP FOR VIABILITY OR OTHER BIG STUDIOS THAT NOT BEEN AS EXCESSIVELY COPRATELY CONPROMISED TO EXTENTD WARNER BROS AND DISNEY HAVE.
I quesiton the collecitve wisdom of both Disney and Warner Bros undermining, not respecting and ill treating actors and actresses incresingly with contempt…the loss of Gina Carano, for instance to Disney is a big deal..sure not as potentially devastating for Disney’s reputation alarmingly for creeping intolerance of alternate views to Disney corporatised boards agenda….in Scarlett Johanson
BUT AS OF NOW LADIES AND GENTS, EVERY I MEAN EVERY NEGATIVE PERCEIVED DEVELOPMENT MISTREATMENT NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL AN ACTOR OR FILMMAKER IS…BY DISNEY, WILL ONLY GRADUALLY SLOWLY BUT SURELY HURT DISNEY ONCE REPUITATION FOR CREATIVE FREEDOM THROUGH FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND VIS A VIS I REALLY QUITE SIMPLY DISGUSTED AS WE ALL SHOULD BE HOW BOTH JOHANSSON AND CARANO HAVE ABANDONED DISNEY COS OF DISNEYS PERCEIVED PIG HEADED ARROGANCE AND DICTATORSHIP TYPE BEHAVIOUR
IF DISNEY KEEPS THIS UP FOR COUPLE MORE TIMES WITH THIS SIMPLY ABHORRENT BEHAVIOUR BREACHING ACTING CONTRACTS SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT AGREED FAIR COMPROMISE ENSURE BOTH PARTIES GAIN EQUAL BENEFIT..BUT A ORGANISATION AS BIG AND ESTABLISHED IN HOLLYWOOD AS DISNEY ILL TREATING HOLLYWOOD ELITES AND STARS IS SERIOUS POTENTIALLY IRREVERSIBLY DAMAGING CAUSE FOR CONCERN SURELY LOT YOU AGREE ISSUE NOT HOW BIG GINA CARANO IS OR NOT THE ISSUE AT STAKE HERE IS THE DISRESPECT OF ACTORS RIGHTS MORALLY BUT ALSO IN EXERCISING CREATIVE FREEDOM THAT SUPPOSED TO FLOURISH WITH ORGANISATION LIKE DISNEY IT NOT ATM IS IT:
I think that democratic right for artistic freedom of creativity reflected through industry contractual obligations between actors, producers and hollywood studios the very integrity is at stake of mainstream film industry as a whole this mess would end by end of week for both Warner and Disney if they a least publicly apologised and accepted responsibility for their part for pushing collectively for Disney Johansson and Carano (who actually shiown a capacity to act granted not yet of level of johansson but there potential there in time..) out the door giving them no choice and ESPECIALLY Warner Bros who imparticularly this studio the new chairwoman is acting like it her g-d given rioght to overally decades several of them of creative innovation and revolutions that saw warner bros at forefront of oscar winners for long time..and respectability and admiration and following with less apprehensions bout dfirection of Warner Bros compared to today.
Disney have the hell of an albatross arounf their neck with the loss HUUUGE loss of one hollywoods most admired proficient actors in Johansson, and Warner have even BIGGER albatross sticking right in their throat not just round their neck in ill treatment of Nolan..Warner Bros can save face like disney if they apologise profoundly AND ask for Nolan no BEG for him to come back.. dismissing the Justice League Snyder Cut was nonsense and insult to Snyder creative popular respected following..to lesser still impactful manner as Nolan..and fact Warner bros has sabotaged relations through their pigheaded arrogance and recklessness…MAY just see me ABANDON ALTOGETHER BOTH DISNEY AND WARNER BROS films and tv series- ok granted that hard call to make but who hgere is that pissed off with the chokehold moves both these studios are doing bringing to premature end contributions of type of characters and sheer talent that frankly Both Disney with Johansson and Warner Bros with Nolan and Snyder actually need..instead..they put on the scrap heap ichallenge anyone to justify how both disney and warner bros are doing in they attitude and approach is gonna help the traditional film industry and it ability to grow and thrive to appeal to film going public? i guranteed you it will diminish over time dont u think?
“If entertainment is going to be under the thumb of Big Corporate then that is going to significantly narrow what kinds of films can be made, who can star in them, etc. Studios now hold less power than Big Tech, so does the government. And, if they are going to censor and ban people to suit their own agendas – whatever they may be – the only way to fight them is to build things outside the system.”
It sad reality, Sasha but i agree with first part whjat you saying well sadly all of it.. have to say, Disney fresh from their trememndous self sabotage act undermining one most respected female actresses and acclaimed of our generation in Johansson with gross negligence across the board of the characterisations that made Black Widow movie the biggest box office bomb of the mcu and a rotting carcass in eyes of most common sense traditionalist knowing black widow fans like me who were pissed off at distortion of taskmaster to be totally different in persona in film to comics, but point is Disney undermine Black Widow, sell Johansson short, and put a thorn in the mcu’s up till now near impeccable record for compelling, gripping films in first few phases of the mcu..that largely – where it matters been true to characters and origins up till black widow movie, but now Disney along with Warner Bros is the poster child of problem public beginning to percieve esp amongst insightful journalists like you here on Awards Daily, Sasha, posterchild of arrogance and self entitlement- that as you say above rejects and ousts pple with ‘views incompatible politically too with the company line” POLITICS HAS PERVADED AND DISTORTED AND IS THRIVING OFF THE PERVERSE SELFISH SELF CENTRED AGENDAS OF THE COPORATIONS THAT BOUGHT OFF MORE THAN THEY DESERVE OF TRADITIONAL HOLLYWOOD STUDIO MODEL
This is already happening in journalism, with Substack being the one site that will stand up for its writers against the cancellation machine. There are alternatives to YouTube in the fledgling stage. While it’s true that big sites still control the vast majority of eyeballs, there is some hope that competition will help loosen the strings a little.
THIS IS A HUGE HEADACHE FOR HOLLYWOOD LOOMING AND HAS MASSIVE UNFORTUNATE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TRAJECTORY AND FATE OF ACADEMY AND BEST PICTURE NOMINEES WINNERS TOO
I NOT AGAINST DISNEY AS A WHOLE.. BUT IN PRINCIPLE MUCH LIKE FACEBOOK AND REGRETTABLY BY PANDERING TO ONLINE STREAMING CROWD IS RISKING DANGEROUSLY ENGAGING A ONCE PRINCIPLED DISNEY ENTERTAINMENT DYNASTY INTO A ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION CLEARLY BEING AS WE SPEAK PARTLY UPENDED BY THE PARASITES THAT SEEK TO BRING A FAR LEFTIST AGENDA TO DISNEY.. THAT ONLY EXPLANATION FOR THE DISGRACEFUL REVELATIONS THAT SASHA HAS STRONGLY IMPLIED IN GENERAL GOING ON IN FILM INDUSTRY THIS IS A HUUUUUUGE PROBLEM!
FOR IF WE WITNESSING THE DISSOLUTION GRADUAL BUT POTENTIALLY ALMOST ASSURED OF THE RIGHTFUL BASTION OF TRADITIONAL BIG HOLLYWOOD STUDIO INTO THESE CORPORATE BY OFFS- IE MARVEL BEING HALF AQUIRED BY DISNEY THEN INEVITABLY WE ARE INVITING A MORE GOVERNMENT- POLITICALLY ALIGNED/ ANTI ESTABLISHMENT SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIOPATHIC AGENDA .. THAT WILL DRIVE ACTORS AND WELL RENOWNED FILMMAKERS LIKE JOHANSSON AND NOLAN- FILMMAKERS AND ACTRESSES WE NEED AS PART OF OUR BLOCKBUSTERS THAT CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED IN MOST FILMS THEY MAKE OR STAR IN, FACT OF THE MATTER IS THE EXODUS TO SEEK REFUGE TO INDEPENDENTS HAS BEGUN
WHERE WILL IT END? WE NEED TO ASK THIS QUESTION WITH UNEQUIVOCAL URGENCY.. FOR I NOT AGAINST A REBALANCING TO SUIT THE TIMES WITHIN REASON..BUT THE POTENTIAL SUICIDE RISK CREDIBILITY WISE.. ARGUABLY MORE FOR WARNER BROS WHO BALKED AT SUICIDE SQUAD EXTENDED CUT SNYDER CUT RELEASE FAR SUPERIOR TO CINEMATIC RUDE CRUDE DUMBED DOWN CUT AND IN ADDITION TO THIS, THE DISINCENTIVES AND STUBBORN ARROGANCE OF WARNER BROS IRON FIST OF CONTROL TREATING THE GREAT CHRISTOPHER NOLAN WITH CONTEMPT FORCING HIS HAND NO CHOICE BUT FOR HIM MAKE WARNER LOSE THEIR GREATEST ORIGINAL INVENTIVE BOLD VISIONARY FILMMAKER COMBINED WITH SNYDER BEING SNUBBED BY WARNER IT SEEMS FOR FUTURE PROJECTS.
BUT IT EVEN DUMBER OF DISNEY TO FOLLOW WARNER BROS SCRIPT HERE…AND THE BIG GAMBLE THAT DESERVES TO BACKFIRE ON DISNEY’S ARROGANT DELUDED BOARD IS JOHANSSON’S THREATS TO SUE I TAKE HER SIDE.. I DONT CARE NOBODY DOES DISNEY HISTORY ALL THAT PRECEDED THE CLEAR CUT TAKE OVER LIKE EMERGING DICTATORSHIP STYLE OF LEADERSHIP THAT NOT ONLY THREATENING THE ONCE RESPECTFUL, TOLERABLE DIVERSE VIEWS PUT TO SIDE FOR ORIGINAL CONTENT IRRESPECTIVE OF POLITICS..BUT WE HAVE ASK ARE WE WITNESSING THE LONG BUT IMMINENT YET AVOIDABLE DECLINE OF ONCE TITANS OF HOLLYWOOD IN WARNER BROS AND EVENTUALLY DISNEY?
WATCH THIS SPACE IT BE CATASTROPHIC FOR HOLLYWOOD AND NO WAY ACTORS AND ACTRESSES AND WRITERS AND PRODUCERS GOING FORWARD WOULD BE ABLE GIVE STRONG ENOUGH FOUNDATION IN TIME TO EMERGING INDEPENDENT PART FOREIGN OWNED STUDIOS TO ENSURE VIABILITY OF AN AWARDS SEASON GOING FORWARD IF BIG STUDIOS ARE IN DECLINE IT ENTIRELY COS OF ARROGANCE OF CORPORATE GREED..DRIVEN BY POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS THE ISSUE NOT AS DISNEY AND WARNER WANT US TO BELIEVE IN THEIR LIES THAT IT ‘FAULT OF JOHANSSON, NOLAN OR SNYDER BETWEEN BOTH WARNER AND DISNEY THE ISSUE LIES IN THE CONTROLLING HIJACKING BY THE POLITICAL BOARDS TO COMPEL DISNEY AND WARNER TO CONFORM TO THEIR POLITICAL AGENDA..THIS IS VERY TROUBLING INDEED…
IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER THAT THE ACADEMY BACK IN FILM STUDIOS OTHER THAN DISNEY OR WARNER BROS IN SHORT TERM LIKE UNIVERSAL, DREAMWORKS, TRI- STAR, PARAMOUNT, ETC… TO TAKE A STAND FOR ALTERNATIVE BIG STUDIOS THAT NOT BEEN BOUGHT OUT BY ONE SIDED POLITICAL HACKJOB CORPORATIONS..
IN END US FILM GOING PUBLIC LOSE OUT! THIS IS EQUIVALENT OF A EMERGING EARTHQUAKE THAT BOUT TO UNLEASH IT FURY TO UNPRECEDENTED DESTRUCTIVE LEVELS TO TRADITONAL FILM INDUSTRY MODEL.. IN TERMS OF CREATIVE INTEGRITY, AND AT THE EXPENSE POTENTIALLY OF THE PUBLIUC INTEREST NOW MORE THAN EVER IT VITALLY IMPORTANT THOUGH I DONT HOLD MUCH FAITH JUST SLIVER OF FOOLS HOPE THE ACADEMY STARE DOWN THEIR OWN VESTED PRO- LEFT POLITICAL INTERESTS AND STAND UP FOR VIABILITY OR OTHER BIG STUDIOS THAT NOT BEEN AS EXCESSIVELY COPRATELY CONPROMISED TO EXTENTD WARNER BROS AND DISNEY HAVE.
THIS IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST THREAT TO OUTCOME AND PROCESS BY WHICH EVENTUAL OSCAR SHORTLIST LEAD TO FINAL OSCAR CONTENDERS…AND I WONT BLAME THE ACADEMY FOR SNUBBING WARNER BROS FILMS OR DISNEY SUPPORTED ONESD IN SHORT TERM- I COMMEND ACADEMY FOR TAKING A STAND FOR CORE PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVE INTEGRITY AND FREEDOM OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION NOT CONTROLLING WINDS OF THE PSEUDO SOIOPATHOLOGICAL MADNESS OF LEFTIST COPORATES BUYING OFF PENETRATING LIKES OF DISNEY AND WARNER… THIS STORY AND TOPIC HAS A LONG WAY TO PLAY OUT..UNFORTUNATRELY..
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NOTE:- THE BELOW IMAGE IS WHAT WILL BE OUTCOME WHAT STARTING TO HAPPEN TO OUR BELOVED HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY..IT BE BARREN, DETERIORATE IN SUFFOCATING DEHYDRATING PUNISHING HEAT..TILL ALL THAT WILL REMAIN IS A SHELL OF ITSELF..UNLESS HOLLYWOOD CREATE A LEGAL ORGANISATION TO REINFORCE BOTH CONTRACTUAL ACTORS RIGHTS NOT BE ABUSED TAKEN FOR GRANTED BY ORGANISATIONS AND THERE IS A CONFORMITY IMPOSED BY AUTHORITIES IN NEW ORGANISATION WITHIN HOLLYWOOD TO REJECT EXTREME SOCIALIST OR RACIALLY MOTIVATED AGENDAS… AND TO CONFORM FILM STUDIO BOARDS WHERE THEY BOUGHT OUT BY CORPORATE WORLD… THAT FREEDOM OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION AND TOLERANCE TO GREATER CREATIVE LEVERAGE FOR BOTH ACTORS AND FILMMAKERS IS FRONT OF MIND WHEN CONSIDERING PROJECTS TO APPROVE OF DONT YOU THINK?
Sasha, you sound like a full blown truth-denying right-winger these days.
It’s not just about art, or fairness, or competition, even. These things have a ripple effect. Look no further than CNN giving Trump all the airtime he needed to win.
It’s not cancel culture for the sake of canceling people. It’s taking a stand, putting the foot down and saying “if you’re a crappy human being, we’re not going to hire you, nor give you a platform and/or money.” Think outside the box on that one.
OH..G-D DONT MAKE me laugh! Clearly you have not been around much here at all if you open your eyes to the reality you choose to ignore to your own embarassment before us much longer established members here you know that Sasha is one of very oh far too few rare breed of journalists who express her conviction her views in a grounded relatable honesty manner on BOTH ends of the political spectrum- in fact HER CONVICTIONS IN HER VIEWS TACKLE THE HEART OF THE ISSUE BEYOND THE POLITICS YOU NAME ME A SINGLE ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST WHO HAS CAPACITY TO LAY PROVOCATIVE ISSUES BARE WITHOUT CONFORMING TO PPLE LIKE YOU WHO LOOK AT EVERYTHING FROM PRISM OF POLITICS?!!
Your views wont get much respect here..but course u entitled to a view as i entitled to absolutely condemn your view.. ANY LONG ESTABLISHED MEMBER FAR LONGER THAN YOU WOULD BACK ME IN
Sasha is not perfect but she next best thing her humility in way she tackles issues of what be percieved as political is far more better informed than people with ignorant presumptions of journalists you clearly have no clue about.
I think this whole story is pretty funny. She’s a relatively unknown actress – I get that The Daily Wire wanted to pick her up for political reasons, but isn’t her producing her own films that will exist solely to give her exposure for political reasons – not even a director announced yet! – a bit overkill?
Anyway, I hope it’s gonna be a good film.
In other news, Benedict Cumberbatch is being recognized by TIFF as well.
It’s really a shame that TIFF didn’t have the courage to give Gina Carano an award .
I am just confused why a new Gina Carano project announcement from a non-entity “studio” would warrant a whole article.
If new projects from the Kidmans, Winslets, Blanchetts, Meryls, Violas – actresses with proper credentials and decades of stunning contributions to film – don’t warrant articles every single time, then an unaccomplished bit player probably shouldn’t either.
Unless it does warrant an article solely because of her politics but then I just don’t care.
Be prepared for Awardsdaily articles of Daily Wire throwing lifelines to Roseanne Barr, Sidney Powell, Matt Gaetz, Rudy Giuliani and Bill O’Reilly with lucrative film projects that no one here with a sound mind cares about.
‘…an action thriller for The Daily Wire reminiscent of classics like “True Grit,” “Duel,” and “Breakdown.”’
Those three films have nothing to do with each other narratively, stylistically or in any other regard. The comparison makes zero sense.
I assume you were equally outraged by the cancellation of James Gunn, Jane Fonda, Dixie Chicks, Beyoncé, Samantha Bee, Kathy Griffin…
I’ll give you a pass on Colin Kaepernick since he’s not in entertainment.
I hate it when cancellers accuse others of cancel-culture. It’s like Bill O’Reilly calling Bill Cosby a pervert.
Again with Hillbilly Elegy?
The New York Post: “‘“Hillbilly Elegy’ is a series of rotten choices — occasionally by the characters, but mostly by Hollywood.”
The National Review: “Howard adapts Hillbilly Elegy according to the pampered ignorance of his Hollywood upbringing.”
The Gospel Coalition: “…essentially a higher-brow Lifetime movie-of-the-week.”
You still won’t explain why these organizations decided to join the vast left wing conspiracy.
No thoughts about politics or morality could even enter my mind watching Hillbilly Elegy. I was too occupied laughing at Mawmaw announcing to her husband, “I’m gonna set you’re ass on fire” and then doing it. If it would have taken sides I disagreed with on any issue, it might have given me something to think about, in which case I would have thought of it as a good movie. But instead, it was the funniest unintentional comedy I know of since the 1950s B-horror “classics.” And why is it that nobody on the left-wing side of the “cancel culture” idiocy can accept the reality that last year’s most acclaimed American movie, embraced by Hollywood and intellectual elite, followed the early effects of the Great Recession on a segment of society who would mostly vote for Trump? Sure, the story ended before Trump was on anyone’s political radar, but it still expected audiences to empathize with the people who would get played by Trump. The biggest difference between Hillbilly Elegy and Nomadland is simply that one works beautifully and one fails miserably.
Eric Red, who “inadvertently” ran over and killed a couple of people, and Dallas Sonnier, who downplayed Adam Donaghey’s predatory behavior. Now that’s what I call conservative values!
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Why d0n’t we talk ab0ut s0mething really imp0rtant like Brittany Spears being free at last , free at last thank G0d all mighty she is free at last !
Not free yet and her name is Britney.
Jesus, Sasha.
oh shut up you dumb nazi, spare me the whining about “big tech”(who BTW actually ban WAY more progressives then nazis), why should leftists be friends with actual bigots anyways? We don’t owe them a damn thing. BTW I pirated that Run Hide Fight movie and i’m so glad I did because screw giving bigots like Shapiro any money, anyways this new movie sounds OK but a far cry from where Carano could’ve been, way to go on torching your career Gina! All you had to do was keep your big fat mouth shut and you’d be printing money in star wars.
BTW Youtube has plenty of bigots like Steven Crowder still on it, so don’t pretend like Substack is being brave or noble here, they ain’t.
Also don’t pretend like the right is tolerant when they frequently whine about minorities and LGBTQ folks merely existing, they are the most intolerant people on the planet.
She was not “fired for her political views.” I assure you – there are plenty of Republicans working at Disney. She was fired for comparing being a Republican to being Jewish during the Holocaust. Which was offensive, yes, but also attention-seeking and idiotic. It’s not surprising Disney would want to stay clear of that kind of negative attention and press. Besides, she was easily one the worst parts of The Mandalorian – wooden and lifeless – so good riddance.
Yeah John Ratzenberger is a well-known conservative but he’s actually smart enough to keep his views to himself(Tim Allen as well, who only really got vocal after Toy Story 4 came out and FOX picked up his sitcom).
“Besides, she was easily one the worst parts of The Mandalorian – wooden and lifeless…”
Yeah she clearly wasn’t living up to esteemed actors of Star Wars’ rich legacy, like Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christensen.
I thought she was fine in it and it’s too bad she couldn’t keep her mouth shut.
So because other bad actors have tainted the franchise in the past we should just settle for the same with their new and improved series and films? Nah, I’m good. Disney can find much, much better.
Given Star Wars at the end of the day were big budgeted tribute to B-movies, the hoaky acting is part of the charm of the films.
But really I don’t recall reading a single bad review for Gina Carano when season 1 premiered when her politics were unknown. She certainly didn’t become a meme like the prequel actors. Heck she was actually praised for her fighting, which was the big skill set she was good at.
It could just be when you found out you disagreed with her you just said “who cares she’s a bad actress” and started remembering her being worse than she was.
I WISH she was hokey. She’s far from that. In fact, you can tell they tried to limit her dialogue in Season 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB-LSkln8E). She’s a fantastic fighter and stunt person, yes, but that’s not acting. I could care less about her politics (I grew up in Montana, my entire family is Republican) I just find her to be a terribly flat and uninteresting presence and have since her Haywire and Deadpool days. Again, a studio like Disney can do so much better. That’s all.
Everything you said is true. This, too, is true: she’s still a godawful actor who shouldn’t have been on Mandalorian for that reason alone.
LOL no nothing in this article is true, big tech ain’t censoring the right, hell they’ve actually bent over backwards to ban loads of progressives for no reason while allowing literal nazis to nest on there.
A little convenient though that all the “terrible actors” are the ones who disagree with you politically.
Regardless of your thoughts, she was a skilled fighter, which is why Steven Soderbergh wanted to use her in a movie, you know that unaccomplished director.
Ok she isn’t the second coming of Katherine Hepburn or Meryl Streep, but a specific skill set like that DOES translate well on screen. If Hollywood has a place for people like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to be “stars”, it has a place for someone like Gina Carano to get work.
She also fit very well in Star Wars, you know, the series that once had a key character played by a stuntman.
this guy just said he agreed with the article and still thought she was a terrible actress.
I think she was a fine actress with some really ignorant views who should’ve kept her mouth shut.
There are good actors who have idiotic beliefs like Robert Davi, James Woods, Tim Allen, Kirstie Alley, Kristy Swanson, Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, Stacey Dash, Steven Seagal, etc.
No Victoria Jackson?? I always thought she was way better than Lucille Ball.
I was going to mention but I didn’t think anybody else on here would’ve remembered her. Definitely wouldn’t go THAT far, but I do remember liking her in that Nickelodeon sitcom “Romeo”
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ok then?
H0w ab0ut Sc0tt Bai0 and Kirk Camer0n .
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yeah forgot about Voight, though he did inflict those Baby Geniuses movies and that damn Bratz film upon us(as it was his production company Crystal Sky that made them). Also Scott Baio, Victoria Jackson and Antonio Sabato Jr to a lesser extent.
Sasha, this is truly pathetic. You want to Stan an antisemite? Well kiss my Jewish tuchus.
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