Deadline reports that Edi Gathegi (Caged, StartUp) will be joining Robert De Niro (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver) in prominent role in an upcoming Netflix limited series, Zero Day. The series is a six-episode conspiracy thriller and is created by Eric Newman (Children of Men, The Last Exorcism), Michael S. Schmidt (Funny Money, Cheap Seats: Without Ron Parker), and Noah Oppenheim (The Maze Runner, Jackie).
Along with De Niro and Gathegi, Zero Day also stars Connie Britton (Dirty John, American Horror Story), Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad, Love & Death), Joan Allen (The Killing, The Twilight Zone), and Lizzy Caplan (New Girl, Fatal Attraction).
Gathegi will be playing Carl, a loyalist of De Niro’s former U.S. President George Mullen and an intense bureaucrat.
Zero Day is about finding truth in a world in crisis being torn apart by forces out of our control, and how much of those forces are of our own doing or imagination in an era rife with subterfuge and conspiracy theory.
De Niro’s Mullen is at the center of the story. He is a popular yet complicated figure who is pulled back from retirement to lead a commission investigating a global cyber-attack.
Zero Day will be executive produced by Newman, Schmidt, De Niro, Oppenheim, Jonathan Glickman (Rush Hour, Wednesday) for Panoramic Media, and Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Mad Men), who will be directing all episodes of the series.
Gathegi is best known for Apple TV+’s astronaut drama, For All Mankind, Briarpatch opposite Rosario Dawson (The Mandalorian, Daredevil) on USA Network, StartUp on Crackle, and Proof on TNT. He recently joined Aporia, a sci-fi drama starring Judy Greer (Arrested Development, 13 Going on 30) and Payman Maadi (Westworld, The Night Of) and written/directed by Jared Moshe (Cold Case Files, Storage Wars: New York). Gathegi is represented by Del Shaw Moonves and APA.