{"id":873238,"date":"2026-08-30T00:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873238\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T00:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:28:19","slug":"chris-hansen-on-primetime-robert-pattinson-is-overly-dramatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873238\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hansen on &#8216;Primetime&#8217;: Robert Pattinson Is &#8216;Overly Dramatic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/chris-hansen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-hansen\" data-tag=\"chris-hansen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hansen<\/a> recently gave his reaction to Robert Pattinson\u2019s impression of him in the upcoming A24 drama-thriller \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/primetime\/\" id=\"auto-tag_primetime\" data-tag=\"primetime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Primetime<\/a>,\u201d which chronicles Hansen\u2019s stint as host of Dateline NBC\u2019s \u201cTo Catch a Predator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI mean, obviously he has practiced imitating me, and while I think it\u2019s overly dramatic, I think there is a pretty good imitation there in the trailer,\u201d Hansen told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@entertainmenttonight\/video\/7679208871935626526?_r=1&amp;_t=ZP-99IPHw98qQp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s not so much what I think; it\u2019s what other people think. And you know, my wife [and] my family seem to think it\u2019s a pretty good imitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s saying things I never said and doing things I never did, and that\u2019s not who I am. I\u2019m a nice guy, except when it comes to criminals and predators,\u201d he added. \u201cI think people should remember that it is a work of fiction, only based on real-life events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tReps for Pattinson did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Hansen\u2019s comments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHansen recently told Fox News\u2019 \u201cJesse Watters Primetime\u201d that when he showed up at the A24 offices for a private screening of the film, he was asked to sign a legal agreement that would sign away several of his personal rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe lawyers at A24 wanted me to sign away my rights to my name, image and brand, essentially, as well as any potential legal rights that would come out of the movie,\u201d <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/awards\/chris-hansen-a24-primetime-screening-refused-1236839630\/\">Hansen claimed<\/a>. \u201cI couldn\u2019t sign that, so they didn\u2019t show me the film. I went all the way over there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA source close to A24 said at the time that Hansen was asked to sign an NDA that every preview audience must adhere to for an unreleased project.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Hansen recently gave his reaction to Robert Pattinson\u2019s impression of him in the upcoming A24 drama-thriller \u201cPrimetime,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,112067,134,122910],"class_list":["post-873238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-hansen","tag-entertainment","tag-primetime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}