Chris Hansen Finally Watched Robert Pattinson Play Him in ‘Primetime’: ‘So Detached From Reality’

By Charisma Madarang

Charisma Madarang

Weeks after publicly voicing his displeasure with Primetime, Chris Hansen has finally watched the biopic and is still unimpressed.

Hansen’s Dateline NBC segment, To Catch a Predator, ran from 2004 to 2007 and featured Hansen teaming up with law enforcement and a group of digital vigilantes named Perverted Justice to confront alleged child sexual predators on camera. As the show became a cultural juggernaut, some criticized its vigilante justice and the hazy line between law enforcement and journalism.

In a pre-taped segment for his podcast, Have A Seat With Chris Hansen, Hansen is seen leaving a Times Square AMC after watching the Lance Oppenheim-directed film on Thursday night and offers his immediate reaction. “I can tell you that most of it is pure fiction. They mix in some reality here and there,” he said. “At the end of the day, I wasn’t blown away by it either way. It’s a movie, and I’ll continue to do the work I do, and people can watch this movie and make up their own minds.”

Speaking to Fox News’ Jesse Watters on his podcast, Hansen elaborated on his criticisms about the film, calling it “so detached from reality,” and gave Robert Pattinson‘s performance of him a “D” grade. (Hansen was particularly perturbed by the scene involving a shirltless Pattinson reciting lines in front of a mirror and called it “absurd.”)

“In a way, it’s a hit piece on me and the series, which is weird because all we do is expose bad human beings who try to hurt children,” said Hansen. “So in that respect, it’s sort of an insult to the thousands of men and women who go out every day to do the same thing that I try to do in Takedown and did in To Catch a Predator. But I think it’s so far over the top that it’s hard to come to grips with what they’re trying to do here.”

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