Lesli Linka Glatter on 'Zero Day' and Boosting Filming in Hollywood

Z ero Day marks the second political thriller series that has earned Lesli Linka Glatter an Emmy nom for best directing.

“I always try to mix it up,” the nine-time Emmy nominee (seven of which she earned for Homeland ) says of the Netflix limited series that stars Robert De Niro as a former U.S. president tasked with investigating a catastrophic cyberattack.

Here, the president of the DGA, which was involved in the recent passage of AB 1138 — a new law that bumps California’s film and television tax credit up to 35 percent — shares her hope that her new project, a TV adaptation of Araminta Hall’s 2020 novel, Imperfect Women , leads by example.

Z ero Day marks the second political thriller series that has earned Lesli Linka Glatter an Emmy nom for best directing.

“I always try t