Robert De Niro Says Filming ‘Zero Day,’ His First Big TV Role, Was Like ‘Swimming the English Channel’: ‘I Gotta Keep Going, Otherwise I’m Gonna Sink’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Robert De Niro‘s first foray into series television proved to be an endurance test for the legendary actor, who compared filming Netflix‘s “Zero Day” to swimming the English Channel — with no sight of either shore. “It is like doing three features back to back,” De Niro said at a preview event in London on Wednesday. “I was in most of it.
And so I had to stay keep up with everything, even as simple as knowing the lines. So I likened it to being in the English channel — swimming to England from France, looking behind me and not seeing France, looking ahead, not seeing England.
I gotta keep going, otherwise I’m gonna sink.” The Oscar winner leads the cyber-thriller as former U.S. President George Mullen, who leads the Zero Day Commission in investigating a devastating cyber attack that has caused nationwide chaos and thousands of fatalities.
The situation forces Mullen to confront his own dark secrets while navigating a landscape of disinformation and competing interests from technology, Wall Street and government power brokers.
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