Surely the biggest pop culture story of last week was the firing of actress Gina Carano off the Disney+ “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian” after she shared a social media post that was deemed anti-semitic and offensive.
She was dropped by talent agency UTA and by Lucasfilm, but then later announced that she was now at work on a new project being developed and produced with conservative website The Daily Wire.As this story has dominated the conversation, it was inevitable that Carano would pop up somehow in this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” hosted by “One Night in Miami” Oscar contender Regina King.
That reference came in the form of a “Weekend Update” bit from the segment’s co-anchor Colin Jost (opposite Michael Che).“Yeah I don’t know if ‘Star Wars’ is the authority on what’s anti-Semitic,” he said.
Then, he played a clip of Watto,
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