Fee stars in Unchosen alongside well-known actors including Molly Windsor, Asa Butterfield and Christopher Eccleston.
The Netflix drama sees Rosie (Windsor) living with her husband Adam (Butterfield) and daughter in a cloistered Christian sect.
The arrival of escaped prisoner Sam, played by Fee, reveals the reality and restraints of Rosie’s world – perhaps this hidden religious community does not have her best interests at heart.
However, with Sam’s criminal past, the question arises – does the greatest danger lie with the cult or with Sam?
Fee said he was “over the moon” when he was chosen to play the part.
“It’s not very often that something comes through that is just so, so brilliantly written and so beautifully nuanced and complex,” he said.
“I hadn’t figured him out in the beginning at all. On the surface, he’s our obvious antagonist in this story, the bad guy, but to reduce it to those terms would do him such an injustice because he’s just wonderfully complicated,” he said.
Fee added: “It’s so easy to paint him in a particular light, but I found myself really falling in love with him, the more that I stayed with him and sort of created this person in my mind.”
Unchosen, a six-part series, is available to watch on Netflix from 21 April.
