The Netflix series ‘Zero Day’, currently beginning its production in New York, has added new people to its cast, including actors Dan Stevens (Downtown Abbey, Legion), Matthew Modine (Stranger Things, Vision Quest), and actress Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Malcolm X). According to Deadline, more cast members have been added to the series, including Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit, The Night Of) and McKinley Belcher III (Ozark).
Zero Day shows the story of Mullen, played by Robert De Niro, a popular yet failed figure in cyber technology, who is called back by the government to head the investigation of a global cyberattack. Bassett plays the role of President Mitchell, a political tactician who is a genius and has some sort of alliance with Mullen. Stevens is Evan Green, a TV host of a popular political cable show who becomes a public antagonist of Mullen.
Camp plays CIA Director Lasche, whom Mullen can’t decide whether to trust or not since he knows all the government’s secrets. Belcher plays Carl Lopez, a brilliant DOJ lawyer who is currently the Zero Day Commission’s lead investigator.
According to Deadline, there are also guest-starring roles for stars Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls, The Interview), Jesse Plemons (Love and Death, Killers of the Flower Moon), Joan Allen (The Contender, The Bourne Supremacy), Connie Britton (American Horror Stories, The White Lotus), Gaby Hoffman (Transparent, Sleepless in Seattle), Clark Gregg (Painkiller, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) and Mark Ivanir (Away, Rubicon).
Gregg plays Robert Lyndon, a billionaire and political manipulator. Ivanir plays Natan, a confidant of Mullen and intelligence operative. Hoffman plays Monica Kidder, known as a Silicon Valley billionaire.
Zero Day is currently in production in New York with De Niro as the lead and executive producer. Other executive producers, in addition to De Niro, are Noah Oppenheim (Jackie), Eric Newman (Narcos), Michael Schmidt, and Jonathan Glickman. The show is directed by Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland).