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Videos
Here’s the trailer for Malice, the new psychological thriller starring Jack Whitehall.
In the series, which comes to Amazon Prime from November 14, the comic plays Adam Healey, a manipulative middle-class interloper who charms his way into the heart of a wealthy family, secretly intent on destroying it.
Comparisons have already been made with Emerald Fennell's Saltburn.
The rich husband and wife he inveigles himself with are played by David Duchovny from The X-Files and Game of Thrones star Carice van Houten,
It has been written by James Week, who previously co-created the sitcom Quacks about Victorian doctors and the Mitchell and Webb series Ambassadors.
Trailer for Malice, Jack Whitehall's psychological thriller
Coming to Amazon Prime next month
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