After a six-decade-long profession, “Taxi Driver” actor Robert De Niro is starring in his first tv collection – but he’s not satisfied he would do it once more.
“I don’t know. It’s a lot of work. It’s like doing three features back to back,” mentioned the veteran American actor.
De Niro portrays a former U.S. president in Netflix’s restricted collection “Zero Day,” which explores themes of reality and disinformation.
De Niro’s character leads the Zero Day Commission in the wake of a cyberattack that has inflicted chaos and claimed hundreds of lives in the United States.
Matthew Modine, who performs a politician, mentioned the present’s plot mirrored how belief was being misplaced in establishments.
“It’s not the question of if a cyberattack will happen on the United States or in some other country around the world. It’s when,” he mentioned.
Preparation for the function was intense, based on De Niro.
“It was a lot of work to learn all that and a lot of it was exposition, especially in certain parts,” he mentioned. “There wasn’t much room for paraphrasing and stuff like that, or adlibbing… But it was worth doing, you know?”
The present was filmed over the last U.S. presidential election marketing campaign and creators Noah Oppenheim and Eric Newman mentioned they have been stunned how a lot artwork appeared to mimic life.
“Every day we’d be on set, and whether it was election-related news or just some other event in the world, we would see things happening that when we had written about them in the show, we had thought were fictional, you know, fancies and pieces of speculation,” mentioned Oppenheim.
“And then we watched as these things unfolded in the real world.”
“Zero Day”, which amongst others additionally stars Angela Bassett and Jesse Plemons, begins streaming on Netflix on Thursday.
Published – February 21, 2025 05:33 am IST
