And having watched the series, we can reveal that's absolutely not a nifty marketing line designed to dupe people into watching.
His character becomes a tutor-cum-'manny' for the kids of wealthy venture capitalist and alpha male Jamie Tanner (The X-Files’ David Duchovny), who has wronged him in some capacity – the details of which are kept firmly under wraps until the series' crescendo.
"It's definitely the most challenging role that I've ever taken on, but one that I was very excited to do," Whitehall told RadioTimes.com. "It was the good kind of nerves, turning up to work each day and feeling really challenged and, at times, slightly out of my depth.
"So I really enjoyed it and relished the challenge of doing something completely different."
But Adam, by contrast, is "adept at cooking, and he can flare cocktails, and he can dance, and he knows about Greek mythology, and all of these things you need to prepare and make sure that you look competent on screen".
But it wasn't just the technical preparation he had to embrace.
There was also some "more psychological prep" to get into Adam's chilling mindset, "which was quite intense" given his status as a new dad.
One such influence was Anthony Perkins's performance as Norman Bates in Psycho.
"And even in scenes [in Malice] where it's a little bit lighter on the surface, it's just trying to carry enough stuff underneath the surface that hints at this other darker side to him. We didn't want to reveal too much of his hand early on, but you need to understand that there's more to him; everything had to be underpinned with that tension."
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That was "one of the major challenges" when approaching the character of Adam. Another was working with such twisted material while navigating fatherhood for the first time.
"There was one morning when my fiancée [model Roxy Horner] came down and I was watching Psycho with little Elsie [who was born in September 2023] on my knee and she was like, 'Why are you watching this with our daughter?'
On a more sincere note, Whitehall added that he was in "quite a strange and vulnerable, emotional place".
"And there are a few scenes and sequences [in Malice] that are very disturbing, and it's hard then coming home at the end of the day and having inhabited that for 10 hours, and then you've got to do bath time. It's a very strange experience, which, again, is just not one that I'm used to.
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