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With the dust settled after February's BAFTAs incident, John Davidson's biopic is all the more timely — to a point
Published
April 26, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)
Robert Aramayo as John Davidson in "I Swear" (Graeme Hunter/Sony Pictures Classics)
With the dust settled after February's BAFTAs incident, John Davidson's biopic is all the more timely — to a point.
commentary
With the dust settled after February's BAFTAs incident, John Davidson's biopic is all the more timely — to a point
Published
April 26, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)
Robert Aramayo as John Davidson in "I Swear" (Graeme Hunter/Sony Pictures Classics)

Kirk Jones’s moving film about of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette, offers compassion and catharsis

Davidson, whose biopic ‘I Swear’ won Robert Aramayo the Best Actor award, involuntarily shouted the racial slur at ‘Sinners’…

Davidson, whose biopic ‘I Swear’ won Robert Aramayo the Best Actor award, involuntarily shouted the racial slur at ‘Sinners’…

BBC broadcast included John Davidson involuntarily using a racial slur

Tourette's activist John Davidson made headlines at the BAFTAs. Now, \

Kirk Jones says he initially thought a slur shouted during the ceremony was not broadcast.