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De Niro likens TV shoot to marathon swim: ‘Gotta keep going, otherwise I’m going to sink’
Robert De Niro investigates a cyberattack in Netflix’s Zero Day. For film actor, making TV show ‘like doing three features back to back’
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Robert De Niro has said filming for a new Netflix series about cyber warfare was “like doing three features back to back”.
The Oscar-winning actor, 81, was an executive producer on Zero Day, which sees him play former US president George Mullen, who is pulled out of retirement amid a cyberattack that has shut down the country’s entire technology infrastructure.
Speaking at a London screening, he said: “It is like doing three features back to back.”
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He added: “Jesse (Plemons) and I were talking about it, and he was saying, ‘Television’s a little different, you know?’
“And I kind of saw what he meant as time went on.
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“It’s just that there was a schedule, a very tight thing for me, I was in most of it (the film), and so I had to keep up with everything, even (something) as simple as knowing the lines.
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