Celebrated film actor Jesse Plemons is appearing in his first TV series Zero Day for Netflix, and he has shared why it has been left deliberately vague whether the political characters on screen are Democrats or Republicans.
Plemons co-stars alongside Robert De Niro and Connie Britton, and he plays aide Roger Carlson to former US president George Mullen, played by De Niro. But neither they nor the serving president Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett) are given clear political affiliations.
Plemons told The Times of London:
“When you do get into the specifics of a political party, it gives you an out immediately as a viewer to either say ‘I’m for this person’ or ‘I’m against them.’ Something disengages as you’re watching. We don’t really need any more of that.”
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