Angela Bassett is getting presidential. The Oscar nominee has been tapped to join the sprawling cast of the Netflix conspiracy thriller series, Zero Day, led by Robert De Niro–Shadow and Act has confirmed. Production on the project just kicked off in New York City. Bassett, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Bill Camp, McKinley Belcher III, Gaby Hoffman, Clark Gregg and Mark Ivanir have joined the limited series alongside previously announced cast members De Niro, Lizzy Caplan , Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen and Connie Britton. The logline reads, “ 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?” De Niro leads the cast as George Mullen, “a massively popular, but complicated, former American President who is pulled from retirement to head a...
