‘Sinners’ star Jayme Lawson reacts to BAFTA slur incident, says ‘Disability got exploited’

The ‘Sinners’ cast is reflecting on the controversial incident that took place at the BAFTA film awards when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were onstage. The incident is related to John Davidson, who has Tourette's syndrome, yelling a racial slur. Now, ‘Sinners’ star Jayme Lawson has weighed in on the incident.

Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo handled the situation with grace

'Sinners' actress Jayme Lawson addressed the incident at the February 28 NAACP Image Awards. Speaking with the Hollywood Reporter, she said, “a big shout-out to Mike and Delroy” for “the grace and the dignity that they exercised.”

Jayme Lawson says that disability was exploited that night

“Institutionally, we still don’t understand what inclusion means,” she added, expressing her discontent over the matter. “Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don’t provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that’s not inclusivity. That’s exploitation," shared the actress.

Davidson’s “disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offenses,” Lawson continued, placing blame on BAFTA and the BBC, adding that the latter was “careless” in editing out parts of the award ceremony broadcast but not the n-word. “A real lack of care was exercised for those two Black men,” she said.

Other ‘Sinners’ stars weighed in

‘Sinners’ star Lindo, 73, told Vanity Fair on the night of the BAFTA ceremony that he and Jordan, 39, “did what we had to do” when they were on stage hearing Davidson’s shouts, but admitted he wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterwards.”

At the Actor Awards on Sunday, March 1, ‘Sinners’ nominee Wunmi Mosaku also told Entertainment Tonight that she has “no hard feelings toward John Davidson at all,” when asked about the incident.Get the latest entertainment updates from the Times of India, along with the latest Hindi movies, upcoming Hindi movies in 2026 , and Telugu movies.”