This interview contains spoilers from all six episodes of “Zero Day,” now streaming on Netflix. 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.

For Lizzy Caplan, joining Netflix's "Zero Day" was an easy decision to make, citing Robert De Niro's involvement, as well as the "solid" credentials of co-creators Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and Michael Schmidt.

Can you handle a cyberattack in this computer age when everybody is completely dependent on the internet, phones, and computers? And who do you think would be able to save the world from such a crisis?

The iconic film actor plays a former U.S. president put in an impossible position in the Netflix political thriller.