Pattinson Wanted Chris Hansen to Look Cool. Hansen Isn't Having It.
Robert Pattinson has said he is a fan of To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, and that he was trying to make Hansen look cool in the film Primetime, Deadline reports. Hansen has made clear the admiration is not returned, and has kept criticizing the Lance Oppenheim film, which is now in theaters. That gap — between what an actor says he meant and what the person on the other end takes from it — is more interesting than a feud. Intent is a private document; reception is the public one. Pattinson can tell us what he was going for. Whether he got there is not his to decide.
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The direction of the disagreement is the odd part: the subject objects, and the actor answers with admiration rather than a defence. That is not a feud — it is two people talking past each other about the same film.
A stated intention is evidence about the actor, not about the film. Wanting someone to come off cool does not establish that they do, which is roughly how Hansen's criticism and Pattinson's fandom can both be sincere.