Overview
- Sony Pictures Classics unveiled the first U.S. trailer on March 5 and set April 24 for the North American theatrical opening after a TIFF 2025 premiere and a hit U.K. run.
- Robert Aramayo leads as John Davidson and won the BAFTA for Best Leading Actor, with the film also winning Best Casting and Aramayo receiving the EE Rising Star award.
- At the February 22 BAFTAs, Davidson—who has Tourette’s—shouted a racial slur during the live BBC broadcast; the BBC apologized and later reposted an edited version, and BAFTA said it would review the incident.
- Davidson and BAFTA issued apologies in the aftermath, and BAFTA judge Jonte Richardson resigned, citing a failure to safeguard Black guests and creatives.
- The film is a Kirk Jones biopic about Davidson’s teenage diagnosis and early adulthood in 1980s Britain, and it holds a reported 100% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes after strong U.K. box-office results.