Delroy Lindo told Vanity Fair magazine, following the BAFTA Film Awards, that he wishes a representative for the awards body had reached out to him and Michael B. Jordan after the N-word was shouted out as they presented an award on stage at Sunday night’s ceremony.

Speaking about the incident, Lindo said he and Jordan “did what we had to do,” referring to how the pair continued to present on stage despite the slur being heard across the auditorium. 

Lindo added that he wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterwards.”

The slur was shouted by Tourettes syndrome campaigner John Davidson, who is the subject of the biopic I Swear. The film picked up three awards last night at the BAFTAs. Davidson was sitting in the Royal Festival Hall audience, and his tics were picked up by microphones in the room. It was audible on the BBC television broadcast.

During the ceremony, BAFTA host Alan Cumming briefly halted proceedings to acknowledge Davidson’s tics. He also said the N-word when Jordan and Lindo presented the award for Best Visual Effects to Avatar: Fire and Ash. 

Davidson exited the auditorium at one point in the ceremony. The Scottish campaigner is a remarkable ambassador for his disability, helping support others with Tourette’s syndrome through public speaking and other activism. In 2018, he was awarded an honor by Queen Elizabeth II for his work in increasing understanding of the condition. He was featured in the 1989 documentary John’s Not Mad.

“Tourette’s is such an awful condition that most of the time I don’t want to be the centre of attention,” he told BBC News last year. “I want to be able to walk down the street and not be noticed because I’m shouting or swearing.”

Davidson is portrayed in I Swear by Robert Aramayo, who said Davidson was the “most remarkable man I’ve ever met” when accepting the Rising Star prize.

Lindo, a veteran performer, was born in Lewisham, London, to parents of Jamaican origin. He spent the first 12 years of his life in the UK before moving to Canada and then Northern California. Speaking with the Guardian newspaper in 2020, he said of his lengthy career: “Everything I have achieved in my life has come as a result of leaving England. I could never in a trillion years have had this career in England. Never.”

Earlier today, the BBC apologized for failing to edit the slur out of their delayed BAFTA broadcast.

We’ve contacted Lindo and Jordan’s reps for further comment.