{"id":243113,"date":"2026-05-29T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/chris-hansen-reacts-to-robert-pattinson-playing-him-in-primetime\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:54:14","slug":"chris-hansen-reacts-to-robert-pattinson-playing-him-in-primetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/chris-hansen-reacts-to-robert-pattinson-playing-him-in-primetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hansen Reacts to Robert Pattinson Playing Him in &#8216;Primetime&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2220610\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/chris-hansen\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Chris Hansen<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/robert-pattinson\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Robert Pattinson<\/strong><\/a> playing him in the upcoming movie <em>Primetime<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>To Catch a Predator <\/em>star recently responded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/27\/primetime-trailer-robert-pattinson-plays-chris-hansen-in-a24-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newly released trailer<\/a> for the forthcoming A24 film in an interview with NewsNation.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\"><strong>Jesse Weber <\/strong>asked for his thoughts on the 40-year-old playing him in the<strong> Lance Oppenheim<\/strong>-directed film about the reality TV show.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\">\u201cWhat? There\u2019s a movie trailer? What will they think of next?\u201d he said when asked about the teaser.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\">\u201cHe\u2019s an actor, right? Young, talented guy?\u201d he went on to say.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\"><strong>Jesse<\/strong> went on: \u201cI mean, he sounds a lot like you. Did you have any idea about this? Did you have any working relationship with this?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Hansen Reacts to Robert Pattinson Playing Him in New Movie | Jesse Weber Live\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CA1alUEv74Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\">\u201cWe had heard that there was something like this in the works. They reached out to me this week, and I\u2019ve been asked not to talk about it a great deal at this point,\u201d he said, calling it \u201cvery dramatic\u201d and saying he\u2019d come back to discuss when it felt appropriate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\">Still, he went on to call the trailer \u201cvery dramatic,\u201d and said he\u2019d return to NewsNation to speak about the film when timing felt right. Watch above.<\/p>\n<p>The Dateline NBC reality TV show featured the host confronting adult men arriving at a sting house expecting to have sex with a minor, with adults impersonating the minors in online chats. The subjects were usually arrested afterward.<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/the-batman-part-2-cast-confirmed-scarlett-johansson-matt-reeves-robert-pattinson-11974479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>The A24 movie arrives in theaters this fall. (A release date has not yet been set.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/27\/primetime-trailer-robert-pattinson-plays-chris-hansen-in-a24-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the trailer here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/chris-hansen\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hansen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/robert-pattinson\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Pattinson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/29\/chris-hansen-reacts-to-robert-pattinson-playing-him-in-primetime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Chris Hansen is opening up about Robert Pattinson playing him in the upcoming movie Primetime. The To Catch a Predator star recently responded to the newly released trailer for the forthcoming A24 film in an interview with NewsNation. Jesse Weber asked for his thoughts on the 40-year-old playing him in the Lance Oppenheim-directed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}