Photo Credit: NetflixNetflix’s political thriller series Zero Day has taken the streamer by storm. Starring Robert De Niro and a star-studded cast, the show examines the balance of truth and power. Director Lesli Linka Glatter and star Matthew Modine spoke with Tyler Treese about the show’s great cast and more.“Zero Day asks the question on everyone’s mind — how do we find truth in a world in crisis, one seemingly being torn apart by forces outside our control? And in an era rife with conspiracy theory and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps even of our own imagining?” says the Zero Day Synopsis.Tyler Treese: Lesli, your resume is just phenomenal. You’ve been, you’ve worked on hit show after hit show. You did an episode of my favorite show, The O.C. So you’re a legend in my books. But you also directed some really memorable episodes of The West Wing, so you have experience with top-notch political television. Did you feel like that experience helped you any with Zero Day or were they totally different beasts?Lesli Linka Glatter: Oh, good question. Well, thank you for that. I love being a storyteller, and I love telling all kinds of stories. So, I would tell you West Wing, absolutely, I always want to be in the back room of power and know how decisions are made. But I would also tell you, I spent eight years on a series called Homeland as director and executive producer, and being in that world of intelligence, I think, was also a great background to come from just in terms of complicated, layered, complex characters juxtaposed to the big picture environment that they’re functioning in. So when I read this, and this is a story to me that’s very much about how you deal with truth in a post-truth world and a world where we don’t all agree on the same facts, and facts can be mistaken as opinion and opinion as facts. That’s a very interesting world to be playing in. So, to juxtapose that with these great characters but not present a particular bad guy, good guy at all, to really say there are things on both sides that make sense. If only people could listen to each other is very thrilling and the genre of a thriller.Matthew, Zero Day has probably the most incredible cast I’ve seen for a miniseries. Every main character could be the lead of a show anywhere else. How is it going from Lizzie Kaplan as your scene partner one moment, then Robert De Niro in the next? You’ve got really juicy material, too. I imagine that’s just pure delight for an actor.Matthew Modine: It is, it is. I mean, it all began, I think, with Robert De Niro. Robert is the pinnacle of this project, and it was something he wanted to do for a long time. Then we ran into the actor strike. So, I think that gave us all a desire. For me, I just wanted to work with Robert De Niro, and then there was Angela Bassett, then there was Lizzie Kaplan, there was Joan Allen. It was crazy. Connie Britton, too. To have the opportunity, if you think about acting like a tennis game, you wanna play with people who are better than you because it makes your game better. So, to be able to work with such professional tennis players, if I may, it was a great pleasure to play with them. [Looks at Lesli] Geez…Glatter: [Laughs] I understood everything you said.Modine: I shouldn’t take drugs before I do my interviews [laughs].Lesli, I wanna ask about Jesse Plemons. I thought he was so phenomenal in this show, and he got in such great shape. How was it working with him?Glatter: Well, it’s my second time working with Jesse. I had done a limited series for HBO called Love and Death with him and with another Lizzie, Elizabeth Olson, and had a great experience working with him. It’s that thing that you hope happens with wonderful actors, that you really have a connection and you go deep with one another. I had that with Jesse, so it was a completely different character. He’d worked with Bob before, and loved working with Bob. The idea of playing a bodyman, a slick operative, was really exciting and something he hadn’t done. I think he embodies that guy beautifully. Of course, this project is incredibly well-researched. You owe it to yourself. If you’re dealing with things that are realistically real, though there are certain things that have not yet happened, and let’s hope they don’t. In terms of cyber weapons, you gotta do the research. Of course, that character’s based on a real person. Zero day events have been happening since 2010. Not all happening simultaneously in all industries. It would be the power grid, or banking, or aviation. So we posit that it happens with all industries at the same time.Zero Day is now streaming on Netflix.The post Zero Day: How Homeland & The West Wing Informed Robert De Niro Show appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.