Actor has ‘no hard feeling’ towards Tourette activist John Davidson, but says BBC’s failure to edit out slurs kept her awake at night and brought tears to her eyes
Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku, winner of the best supporting actress Bafta, said that the N-word incident at the Baftas “tainted” her celebration and “kept [her] awake at night”.
Mosaku was speaking in Los Angeles on Sunday at the Actor awards (formerly the Screen Actors Guild awards), where Sinners won best cast, and said: “It was incredibly painful to have that celebration kind of really tainted for me.”
Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson shouted a number of slurs at the Baftas on 22 February, including the N-word while Sinners stars Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage presenting an award; the latter was audible on the BBC’s broadcast of the event, before the show was removed from the BBC’s iPlayer platform a day later.
Mosaku said: “I have no hard feeling toward John Davidson at all – he has a condition. I feel like Bafta has a lot of lessons to learn, but … it felt exploitative and performative to have someone there without the full protection of everyone, including him, and anyone in that audience.”
