‘I Swear’ Director on Selling His House to Make the Tourette’s Biopic, Robert Aramayo’s Instant Classic BAFTAs Speech and That N-Word Scandal: ‘The Irony Is, That’s Why We Made the Film’

Apr 24, 2026 7:30am PT

‘I Swear’ Director on Selling His House to Make the Tourette’s Biopic, Robert Aramayo’s Instant Classic BAFTAs Speech and That N-Word Scandal: ‘The Irony Is, That’s Why We Made the Film’

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Graeme Hunter

More than six months after “I Swear” released in the U.K., audiences in the U.S. are now finally getting to see the British indie film that’s been at the center of a whole lot of noise from across the Atlantic.

Landing in cinemas nationwide via Sony Pictures Classics, the feature, written and directed by Kirk Jones, tells the deeply moving, often hilarious and frequently tear-jerking story of John Davidson, the Scottish Tourette Syndrome campaigner who has suffered from the neurological disorder since a teenager.

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