# NAOMI ACKIE: Playing Whitney Houston Changed Everything - I’m a Different Person Now Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/naomi-ackie-playing-whitney-houston-changed-everything-i-m-a-different-person-now Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/naomi-ackie-playing-whitney-houston-changed-everything-i-m-a-different-person-now.md Podcast: [Great Company with Jamie Laing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737) Published: 2026-04-07T23:03:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/great-company/episodes/naomi-ackie-playing-whitney-houston-changed-everything-im-a Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65d737dfdc02e00016c413b2/e/69d5389e48404f7b5a49e781/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/episodes/naomi-ackie-playing-whitney-houston-changed-everything-i-m-a-different-person-now Duration seconds: 4499 ## Resource Naomi Ackie is an award-winning actor known for her roles in The End of The F***ing World, Blink Twice and playing Whitney Houston in the 2023 biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody. I love speaking to hugely talented actors like Naomi. I’m always so curious to know what they’re like away from the characters they play. Naomi is a perfectionist who has been incredibly hard on herself throughout her career. In our conversation, she shares how her biggest role nearly broke her, what she’s learnt from it and why she won’t let it happen again. In this episode, Naomi shares: - The advice her Mum gave her when she first said she wanted to be an actor - The anxiety & panic attacks that came with playing Whitney Houston - How losing her Mum at 22 years old changed her - What it’s like working alongside Zoe Kravitz, Florence Pugh & Robert Pattison - What happened when Channing Tatum gave her sister a lap dance This conversation is a reminder that we should all stop judging ourselves so harshly and start celebrating our successes. Naomi Ackie is Great Company. If you enjoyed the show, you can also follow us:  Instagram- @greatcompanypodcast TikTok - @greatcompanypodcast  Jamie - @jamielaing And if you've got thoughts, questions and comments, you can email us at: greatcompany@jampotproductions.co.uk  THE CREDITS Executive Producer: Ewan Newbigging-Lister Producer: Helen Burke Assistant Producer: Issy Weeks-Hankins Video: Josh Bennett Social Media: Laura Coughlan Audio: Rafi Amsili Geovannetti   Great Company is an original podcast from JamPot  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/episodes/naomi-ackie-playing-whitney-houston-changed-everything-i-m-a-different-person-now/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/naomi-ackie-playing-whitney-houston-changed-everything-i-m-a-different-person-now.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.