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‘It’s like doing three movies at once’: Robert De Niro on his thrilling TV debut – as the US president

The film acting legend’s Netflix political conspiracy drama Zero Day is his first major TV gig, and it’s extremely well timed. He talks trust and his greatest roles – while his PR team try to ban any questions about Trump

Art mirrors life on the Netflix show Zero Day, a tense political thriller for Donald Trump ’s second term. Yesterday he was at a school fundraiser and the other parents – all much younger than him – were clamouring to discuss his role in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, which was nice and strange, because there is no way of predicting which films will last and which won’t. Netflix’s thriller was devised by a pair of political journalists – the New York Times correspondent Michael S Schmidt and former NBC producer Noah Oppenheim – and depicts a United States that can be switched on and off like a light.

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