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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