{"id":3007,"date":"2026-03-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/sinners-actress-wunmi-mosaku-says-n-word-incident-tainted-bafta-win\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:00:00","slug":"sinners-actress-wunmi-mosaku-says-n-word-incident-tainted-bafta-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/sinners-actress-wunmi-mosaku-says-n-word-incident-tainted-bafta-win\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sinners\u2019 Actress Wunmi Mosaku Says N-Word Incident \u2018Tainted\u2019 BAFTA Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The startling<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/news\/jamie-foxx-responds-to-baftas-n-word-moment\/\"> N-word incident<\/a> that happened at the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards continues to send ripples throughout the entertainment industry. For <em>Sinners<\/em> actress, Wunmi Mosaku\u2014who snagged the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress\u2014the moment \u201ctainted\u201d her win and \u201ckept [her] awake at night.\u201d While attending the Actor Awards (formerly the Screen Actors Guild Awards), the actress spoke with <em>Entertainment Tonight<\/em> on the red carpet, saying it was \u201cincredibly painful\u201d to have her celebration overshadowed by the incident. <\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson yelled several slurs throughout the night, including the N-word, while Mosaku\u2019s co-stars Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting an award. It took nearly a day for the BBC to remove the audio from the broadcast on its iPlayer. Davidson, who attended the ceremony in support of <em>I Swear<\/em>, a film based on his life, was reportedly \u201cdistraught\u201d and was told any swearing would be immediately edited out of the broadcast. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wunmi Mosaku on 'Painful' BAFTAs Tourette's Moment (Exclusive)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxSZcom3Q6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-i-can-t-understand-it-i-can-t-understand-it-and-i-m-not-sure-i-can-forgive-it-mosaku-says\">\u201cI can\u2019t understand it. I can\u2019t understand it, and I\u2019m not sure I can forgive it,\u201d Mosaku Says<\/h2>\n<p>Mosaku tells the outlet she has no hard feelings toward Davidson and appears to place the responsibility on the BBC and the BAFTAs. \u201cHe has a condition. I feel like Bafta has a lot of lessons to learn, but \u2026 it felt exploitative and performative to have someone there without the full protection of everyone, including him, and anyone in that audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThen the BBC is a whole other thing \u2026 That\u2019s the bit that really kind of kept me awake at night and brought tears to my eyes. I was like, you really chose to keep that in\u2026I can\u2019t understand it\u2026I can\u2019t understand it, and I\u2019m not sure I can forgive it.\u201d Since the incident, the BBC has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/feb\/24\/bbc-apologises-to-staff-over-n-word-inclusion-as-bafta-announces-comprehensive-review\">two apologies<\/a>. Reportedly, Chief Content Officer Kate Phillips told staff she was \u201cso sorry that a racial slur was not edited out of our broadcast.\u201d Phillips noted that an investigation had been launched to discover what led to the shocking moment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The startling N-word incident that happened at the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards continues to send ripples throughout the entertainment industry.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}