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‘Zero Day’ Political Consultant Eric Schultz on Working With Robert De Niro and How Oranges Became ‘Consequential’ in the Storyline
'Zero Day' political consultant Eric Schultz talks about working with Robert De Niro on the Netflix political thriller series.
His latest gig was helping the cast and creatives get everything right in “ Zero Day,” the Netflix political thriller about a former president ( Robert De Niro) who is pulled out of retirement by the current commander-on-chief (Angela Bassett) to investigate a worldwide cyber attack. Presidents usually have a bowl of treats on the Oval Office coffee table – Ronald Regan famously offered jellybeans while Barack Obama had apples and Joe Biden had chocolate chips on hand. “They became consequential later on because the speaker of the house [Matthew Modine] peels an orange when he’s in her office as a flex during one of their heated conversations,” Schultz recalls.
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