Robert Aramayo says he keeps hearing pitches about replacing Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in the MCU, even as his BAFTA momentum for I Swear keeps building. The remarks land after a 79th BAFTA Film Awards night that put him front and center, and after the film’s U.S. rollout gave the conversation a wider audience.
BAFTA night for I Swear
On Feb. 22, Aramayo won both the Rising Star Award and leading actor at the 79th BAFTA Film Awards, when he was 33 years old and from Hull, East Yorkshire. I Swear had five nominations, and Sony Pictures Classics opened it in the United States on April 24 after its U.K. release last October.
John Davidson attended the ceremony as an executive producer, and Aramayo said he was the first face he saw backstage after the award was announced. “He was waiting for me, and we had this massive hug,” Aramayo said. “This isn’t a story about Tourette’s. It’s a story about John and all of the given circumstances that surround John.”
John Davidson and the broadcast
The film’s BAFTA success was overshadowed by the broadcast of John Davidson’s involuntary vocal tics, including a racial slur, when Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented. BAFTA apologized to the presenters after the incident, and Davidson later told Variety he felt “a wave of shame.” After the BAFTA presentation, he left the ceremony on his own in the second half.
That sequence left the awards win carrying two meanings at once: recognition for Aramayo and a reminder that the night pulled attention away from the film itself for weeks. For anyone following I Swear, the practical effect is simple enough — the movie finally has a U.S. release, but its public profile has been shaped as much by the ceremony as by the film.
Wolverine talk keeps circling
Aramayo also said he keeps hearing pitches about playing Wolverine in the MCU. The chatter now sits alongside his BAFTA profile, which is why the role speculation has started to follow him in the same breath as I Swear, even though the film is his current industry result.
Whether Robert Aramayo is actually in contention for Wolverine or whether the casting talk is only fan and media speculation is still the open question. For now, the real news is that he has turned a BAFTA-winning week into a far broader conversation than one awards campaign, and that is the kind of visibility Marvel rumors tend to feed on.
