Delroy Lindo

At the NAACP Awards, Ryan and I were presenting an award.

And right before we went on stage, I said to Ryan that I wanted to just say something.

He didn't know where I was going.

I said, let me just, before we start reading the teleprompter, I have something I want to just say.

And what I said to the audience were words to the effect that...

Mike and I, sinners, appreciate all the love and support that we have received as a result of what happened at BAFTA.

And the fact that I could stand there in a room predominantly of our people.

The NAACP Awards.

Yeah.

I could stand there and feel safe, feel loved, feel supported, and just simply affirm that

the love and the support that they have given us.

And I just wanted to officially, formally say thank you to our people and to all of the people who have supported us, um, as a result of that incident.

And then the second thing I was at the after party, the BAFTAs, and, um,

I don't know what I was thinking, but a gentleman came up to me at the after party and said he introduced himself and said, oh, I'm with Vanity Fair.

Now, I should have told me this is a journalist right here.

He said, I'm with Vanity Fair.

It didn't occur to me.

This is a journalist.

But what I said to him was, look, it would have been nice if somebody from BAFTA had spoken to Mike and I. And that's all I said.

And that's all I am going to say.