Delroy Lindo instructed Self-importance Truthful journal, following the BAFTA Movie Awards, that he needs a consultant for the awards physique had reached out to him and Michael B. Jordan after the N-word was shouted out as they offered an award on stage at Sunday evening’s ceremony.
Talking in regards to the incident, Lindo stated he and Jordan “did what we needed to do,” referring to how the pair continued to current on stage regardless of the slur being heard throughout the auditorium.
Lindo added that he wished “somebody from BAFTA spoke to us afterwards.”
The slur was shouted by Tourettes syndrome campaigner John Davidson, who’s the topic of the biopic I Swear. The movie picked up three awards final evening on the BAFTAs. Davidson was sitting within the Royal Competition Corridor viewers, and his tics had been picked up by microphones within the room. It was audible on the BBC tv broadcast.
Throughout the ceremony, BAFTA host Alan Cumming briefly halted proceedings to acknowledge Davidson’s tics. He additionally stated the N-word when Jordan and Lindo offered the award for Finest Visible Results to Avatar: Hearth and Ash.
Davidson exited the auditorium at one level within the ceremony. The Scottish campaigner is a outstanding ambassador for his incapacity, serving to help others with Tourette’s syndrome by way of public talking and different activism. In 2018, he was awarded an honor by Queen Elizabeth II for his work in rising understanding of the situation. He was featured within the 1989 documentary John’s Not Mad.
“Tourette’s is such an terrible situation that more often than not I don’t need to be the centre of consideration,” he instructed BBC Information final yr. “I would like to have the ability to stroll down the road and never be observed as a result of I’m shouting or swearing.”
Davidson is portrayed in I Swear by Robert Aramayo, who stated Davidson was the “most outstanding man I’ve ever met” when accepting the Rising Star prize.
Lindo, a veteran performer, was born in Lewisham, London, to folks of Jamaican origin. He spent the primary 12 years of his life within the UK earlier than transferring to Canada after which Northern California. Talking with the Guardian newspaper in 2020, he stated of his prolonged profession: “Every thing I’ve achieved in my life has come on account of leaving England. I might by no means in a trillion years have had this profession in England. By no means.”
Earlier at the moment, the BBC apologized for failing to edit the slur out of their delayed BAFTA broadcast.
We’ve contacted Lindo and Jordan’s reps for additional remark.
