I take it that instead of saying “n-word”, he said the word full out. Yeah, that is a no,no.
I will say I take issue with the article saying you shouldn’t say the n-word when reading from a script. Is it now wrong to have movie, plays, etc depicting racists saying the n-word? Are we know going to say all the white actors in Roots were racist cause they said the n-word when playing their parts?