“Everything was against me”- Gina Carano details how cancel culture completely destroyed her acting career
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If you are an MMA fan since right before the ascension of Cris Cyborg and Ronda Rousey, chances are you were brought to the sport by Gina Carano. Carano is now a retired mixed-martial artist leaving the competition behind her in 2009 and concluding her legacy of 8 fights, winning 7 of them. Safe to say that Carano, if not the first female megastar like Rousey, was the first-ever big name of the women’s MMA brand.
Carano was called out by Rousey, who herself left MMA nearly 6 years ago, to have one last fight only if Carano ever wants to come back to the Octagon. The respect was there from Rousey and this fight might intrigue the fans as well. But Carano hasn’t responded so far. This might be due to being busy with all the media obligations required as an actor to do for his/her films, just like Carano is doing for her latest movie “Terror on the Prairie”
Gina Carano is staunchly against huge cooperations owning the ‘social credit score’ in popularity battle
In a recent interview, Gina Carano talks about the time in early 2021 when she was held back by a massive internet outburst in the form of cancel culture and the profound criticism and condemnation by the Hollywood press and other companies like Lucasfilm for her remarks about Jewish people during Holocaust, U.S. Political climate, use of gender pronouns, coronavirus and election fraud.
“When I was cancelled, I felt like everything was turned against me,” says Carano “Everything that I loved was just against me. I was fighting for my name. I just felt like everything was stripped from me… I feel like cancel culture is extremely dangerous. I think it starts putting us on the line of kind of like a social credit score. And… corporations are going to win that battle. They’re going to win the social credit score. They’re going to win the popularity battle because they have access to manipulating even the data, but they have access to manipulating the masses, whereas that robs from the individual,” concludes Carano. [h/t Fox News]
What do you make of Carano’s experience with being ‘cancelled’ as a part and product of cancel culture? Do you think Carano was ethically wrong in giving her opinions considering the unpopularity and shock element to them? Or was it more the internet behaviour and as she calls out, cooperations at fault for shunning her voice down when she has the right to speak what she feels?
Prior to the cancel culture, Gina Carano was part of the Star Wars franchise, now, neither Carano nor the franchise is interested to work in the future. Regardless, ever since her MMA career was over, she paved the way for herself to become one of the most notable figures in action movies and be part of many huge ones like Deadpool, Haywire, Furious 6 and many more. If Carano ever returns to fight Ronda Rousey, who do you think would win?
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