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‘Zero Day’ Star Lizzy Caplan on That Big Finale Twist, Sparring With Robert De Niro and the Enduring Legacy of ‘Mean Girls’
'Zero Day' star Lizzy Caplan on that huge finale twist, sparring with Robert De Niro, what Jesse Plemons' Roger means to Alex and 'Mean Girls.'
Lizzy Caplan always knew that her character, Congresswoman and former First Daughter Alexandra Mullen, was behind the catastrophic cyberattack that incited the existential and moral panic that runs through “Zero Day.” It’s a plot twist that comes in the early minutes of the finale of Netflix’s latest political thriller, which stars Robert De Niro (in his first major TV role) as President Robert Mullen, an aging, populist former leader who comes out of retirement to run a commission tasked with investigating the devastating nationwide outage. As it turns out, Richard Dreyer (Matthew Modine), the current Speaker of the House, had teamed up with tech billionaire Monica Kidder (Gaby Hoffmann) to orchestrate a plot against the sitting government of President Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett). But after Alex leaves her father a resignation note to read while delivering his report to the American public, Robert takes that opportunity to expose Dreyer’s involvement, even if that would implicate his daughter and tear his family apart even further.
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