Zero Day executive producer Eric Newman interviews star Robert De Niro for The Hollywood Reporter about the limited series. De Niro reveals what attracted him to this role, how the plot of the show mirrored real-life political events and more.

As former U.S. president turned special commission investigator George Mullen ( Robert De Niro) delivers a climactic closing speech in the final scene of Netflix's new political thriller Zero Day, it's this admission that gets to the heart of the show's message about the importance of truth in today's world.

Co-creators Eric Newman and Noah Oppenheim also tell TheWrap about the Netflix limited series' real-world parallels and why characters' party affiliation was left vague "by design"