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Kerri-Ann Roper

Alan Cumming on ‘trauma triggering’ Bafta film awards – ‘We were all let down’

Alan Cumming has said the headline-making Bafta film award ceremony was “trauma triggering”, adding: “We were all let down by decisions made to both broadcast slurs and censor free speech.”

During the ceremony in London, while Sinners stars Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan were presenting the special visual effects award, Scottish campaigner John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, shouted a racial slur, which was broadcast on the BBC.

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