Jack Whitehall: From Fangirling Over The Rock to Fatherhood

What are Hollywood auditions really like behind the scenes? Jack Whitehall is in the studio with Romesh for a fast, funny and surprisingly candid chat that jumps from his early stand-up days and cringe-inducing “Danny Dyer” phase to his darkest acting role yet in Malice.

He talks about prepping to play a manipulative villain, juggling that mindset with new-dad life, fangirling over The Rock on Jungle Cruise, blowing auditions, and navigating the circuit as the posh kid everyone expected to hate.

They also get into panel shows, parenting, their unexpectedly famous parents and why teenagers insist stand-up is “dead”.

A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Listen.



00:01 Intro

02:06 Jack on winning the Amuse moose

04:20 Jack and Romesh meeting in the early career days

06:53 Jack’s acting beginnings

07:45 Romesh has a gift for Jack

12:20 New TV Show Malice

14:42 The difference between acting and comedy

16:43 Balancing family and professional life

21:33 Jungle Cruise Movie

22:24 Fangirling over Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

24:38 What’s the end goal?

26:15 Auditioning

32:57 A question from Shanthi

34:11 Being posh in comedy

38:05 Working in stand up

40:43 League of their own

44:05 Touring and time off

44:42 Comedy and parenting

52:25 Panto stories

56:12 Working with parents

1:01:54 Jack & Romesh play ‘Misquoted'

1:04:53 Jack’s weirdest experience of his life

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