After weeks of offering A24‘s Primetime with free press, Chris Hansen has lastly seen the Lance Oppenheim-helmed thriller.
On Friday, the previous To Catch a Predator host teased his response after catching a screening of the film, which is now in theaters, based mostly on Esquire‘s depiction of Hansen within the 2007 article “Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die” with Robert Pattinson portraying him.
“It was so weird and so in-and-out of actuality,” mentioned Hansen in a video shared on X. “Clearly, I’m not goal as a result of the character is me, nevertheless it was so indifferent from actuality or something I’ve skilled then or now doing the investigations. I’m unsure what the purpose of it was.”
On the Venice Movie Pageant premiere, Pattinson not too long ago mentioned that he hopes Hansen sees the movie as “some sort of praise” from these he’s impressed.
In the meantime, Hansen’s official overview of the movie comes amid a rollercoaster of reactions he’s needed to the mission, together with considering authorized motion and buying advert area earlier than upcoming screenings of the film to advertise his true-crime streaming community TruBlu, the place he continues his sting investigations.
After Hansen not too long ago confirmed he’s “going to see” the film, following an invitation from the manufacturing workforce to a non-public screening, he appeared final month on Fox Information, claiming he was requested to signal “a really restrictive settlement” to attend the superior screening.
The shape was an NDA that each one preview audiences are requested to signal per week prematurely to view in an unreleased movie, with the intention to forestall spoilers and defend IP. Hansen reportedly refused to signal, and subsequently, wasn’t allowed to display screen the movie.
Now in theaters, Primetime follows Chris Hansen (Pattinson) as he makes an attempt to make tv historical past with NBC’s To Catch a Predator (2004-’07), a hidden digital camera present that arrange stings for grownup males looking for intercourse from minors on-line.