It was incredibly painful to have that celebration kind of really tainted for me. 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.
South London star Delroy Lindo at the annual Movies for Grownups awards in Beverly Hills this month. Photograph: Maarten De Boer/Getty Images for AARP Lindo was reportedly as taken aback as the rest of the industry. In bed in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, he was rung by his son and told the news. Really? Are you for real? he asked, before looking at his phone and finding 179 messages confirming it.