Kenyan-American actor Edi Gathegi will star alongside Robert De Niro the limited series Zero Day, a six-part conspiracy thriller for Netflix. Gathegi is set to play a prominent role as Carl who is described as “an intense bureaucrat and loyalist of De Niro’s former US President George Mullen.”
According to Netflix, 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?”
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First announced in March 2023, Zero Day is De Niro’s first TV series and will be directed by Homeland’s Lesli Linka Glatter. Joining De Niro and Gathegi are Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex), Jesse Plemons (Love & Death), Connie Britton (The White Lotus) and Joan Allen (The Killing).
Gathegi has previously starred in The Twilight films, X-Men: First Class, The Blacklist, Briarpatch, StartUp, The Harder They Fall, and most recently, Apple TV’s For All Mankind.
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