{"id":508295,"date":"2026-03-01T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508295\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:22:07","slug":"sinners-star-jayme-lawson-speaks-out-on-bafta-tourette-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508295\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sinners\u2019 Star Jayme Lawson Speaks Out on BAFTA Tourette Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSinners<\/a> actress Jayme Lawson candidly shared her thoughts on last weekend\u2019s incident at the BAFTA Awards<\/a> while speaking with The Hollywood Reporter on the NAACP<\/a> Image Awards<\/a> red carpet last night. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ll first say a big shout-out to Mike and Delroy; let\u2019s continue to honor them for how they handled that in real time,\u201d Lawson said about Michael B. Jordan<\/a> and Delroy Lindo<\/a> having the N-word shouted at them by guest John Davidson, who has\u00a0Tourette Syndrome<\/a>, while they were onstage to present at the British awards ceremony. \u201cThe grace and the dignity that they exercised and the whole home team, everybody that was out there really carried themselves well. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think the events this weekend exposed a couple of things,\u201d Lawson continued. \u201cInstitutionally, we still don\u2019t understand what inclusion means. Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don\u2019t provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that\u2019s not inclusivity. That\u2019s exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat man\u2019s disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offenses,\u201d she said of Davidson. \u201cThat\u2019s the BAFTA<\/a>\u2018s fault. And then the BBC<\/a> to air what they aired is careless \u2014 and not like some haphazard accident \u2014 a real lack of care was exercised for those two Black men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, \u201cAnd we know the BBC knows how to take care of what they care about because they censored a bunch of other [words]. They went so far as to make sure certain things weren\u2019t topics of conversation. They censored Akinola [Davies Jr. ]\u2019s speech, the director of My Father\u2019s Shadow, which is an amazing film, by the way. So you censored one Black man. You failed to protect two others, and our production designer, Hannah [Beachler]. You do not care for our dignity, our humanity. You want to celebrate our art, but you won\u2019t protect [us]. And that\u2019s why we celebrate Sinners. That\u2019s why we celebrate Ryan [Coogler]. That\u2019s why we show up to the NAACP because those are spaces where we felt safe, where we feel safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the NAACP Image Awards<\/a>, One Battle After Another star Regina Hall asked the audience \u201cto take a moment\u201d to show love to Jordan and Lindo, who then received a loud round of applause from attendees. <\/p>\n

\n\tLindo also spoke out on the incident for the first time<\/a> while taking the stage to present with Coogler, stating, \u201cI\u2019d just like to officially say, we appreciate all the support and love we have been shown in the aftermath of what happened last weekend. It means a lot to us,\u201d adding that the moment was a \u201cclassic case of something that could be very negative becoming very positive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinners actress Jayme Lawson candidly shared her thoughts on last weekend\u2019s incident at the BAFTA Awards while speaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3042,197507,198122,13698,49,48,178232,75,77,8086,106753,202341,27690],"class_list":{"0":"post-508295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-bafta","10":"tag-bafta-awards","11":"tag-bbc","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-delroy-lindo","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-international","17":"tag-michael-b-jordan","18":"tag-naacp","19":"tag-naacp-image-awards","20":"tag-sinners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}