🤣 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Jack Whitehall

The fantastic Jack Whitehall joins Jonesy & Amanda to chat about his new show, Malice.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
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app and Amanda gam Nation. You know you're in for
a good time when Jack Whitehall is on the show,
and there were used to seeing him on stage doing
stand up or galivanding around the world with his father,
but he's taken a bit of a pivot starring in

(00:31):
a thriller series called Malice about a multi millionaire who
hires a sinister nanny played by Jack. Hello. Jack, Hello,
So you sinister nanny like mister Sheffield?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Pretty she was sinister?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, I mean it's a bit of a departure for me.
And yeah, very very different kind of pace to doing
the shows with my dad.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
And when you're filming and traveling with your dad or
doing stand up, you're your own boss to a certain extent,
but you're a cog in a very particular kind of
a wheel. How different did that feel?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean, I love, I love the opportunity to, you know,
jump into acting roles like this because you are sort
of part of an ensemble and it's great, you know,
being in that creative process and working with other actors
and directors and writers and like stand up can be
very solitary and quite lonely at times when you're on

(01:30):
tour and your own and you know, working with my dad,
I don't know, the most professional thing in the world.
So yeah, it was nice to be on a set
with like a load of grown.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Ups and his as you've gone from your dad to
David d'covney.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, yes, yeah, I think that was That was great
working with David d'govney. He's, you know, a legend and
obviously I grew up watching him in The X Files
and califor Monication and all of these shows, and he's
a really interesting and charming guy who I had like
a really good natural chemistry with. But then we sort

(02:06):
of had to strip it all away because We're playing
adverse in this show and I'm meant to hate his guts,
which is quite challenging because he's just so effortlessly charming.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
How annoying for you?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
That would be hard?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yes, well that's what acting is, but still it would
be hard. I'm sure Jack's mastered the art of acting.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Juries out.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Your daughter is two years old. Have you picked up
some tips on what you don't want in a nanny.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well, I was actually hiring for nanny whilst we were
doing this because I was filming a lot and yeah,
Elsie was one at the time, so we needed a
little bit of extra help. And I feel so sorry
for these poor nannies that we interviewed because the interviewing
process was so thorough and I was asking questions like
I was vetting them to work in the CIA, and
asking them about their relationships with their parents and what

(02:53):
they're like around animals, and bringing out the raw shack
test and yeah, these these poor girls.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Like rabbits and their headlights.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I was not knowing why I was digging in so deep,
but it's because the material that I was working with
every day was just so alarming.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's quite hard to switch off. And you don't want
so many shows with around a nanny anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know, when we were growing up, you had the
Brady Bunch, you had Alice and then we the Boss.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Who's the boss?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
You had Friend Dresher, mister Sheffield and anny genre.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Is back, Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I think also, you know, it's a bit of that
like coockoo in the nest thing that people like, you know,
hand that Rocks the Cradle and Talented mister Ripley and
then yeah, it's the sort of the nanny angle. But
also I think there's a little bit of that like eat.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
The rich thing going on as well with our show.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
People quite like watching these you know, really wealthy families
in their gilded cages on these you know, lavish holidays
having their lives ruined.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think it's quite cathartic.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, the shows described as a Talented Mister Ripley meets
White Lotus. Did you get to go to somewhere gorgeous?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
We did.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
We filmed it all in Greece on this island called Paros,
which was amazing, and I was there for yeah, a
month and a half at the beginning of the summer.
And I've honestly never had more set visits in my life,
like the amount of agents that came to visit me.
And it's like you normally cannot drag them to set,
kicking and screaming to buy you lunch.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
But on this one they were all.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Coming out of the woodwork, the agents, the publicists, My
accountant came on her on zoom and all of a
sudden she was there.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
We could have done this on zoom. What about your
dad did you show up? Of course he was there
as well, everyone watching the socks in the sink.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, exactly, and then sort of giving me really withering
critique on my Yes.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh Jack, It's always great to talk to you. Malice
is out now on Prime Video.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
This has been called the show to binge as we
head into Christmas. It's got every accolade going for it.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Jack Whitehall, thank you, oh, thank you so much, so lovely.
Is this chat to you again? Good on you