After watching “Primetime,” Chris Hansen shared his brutally honest critique of Robert Pattinson’s “weird” portrayal of him.
“It was very strange and in and out of reality,” the journalist said on the “Sit Down with Chris Hansen” podcast on Friday.
“Obviously I’m not objective because the character is me, but it was very disconnected from reality or anything I experienced doing the research then or now,” he added.
“I’m not sure what the point of this is.”
Hansen, who caught alleged pedophiles in “To Catch a Predator” from 2004 to 2007, criticized Pattinson’s performance and said the “Chris Hansen version” was “so disjointed, so unbalanced, so dark, so unlikeable.”
“I mean, it upsets my current and former colleagues.” Hansen, 67, added that about 13 members of his former team watched the film with him.
Hansen also criticized 30-year-old director Lance Oppenheim for “having a dark image of what he wanted to do.”
“He wanted to create a horror-like movie with interesting photography and didn’t want to hear anything else,” Hansen said. “[He] “He didn’t want it to be contaminated by anything positive he had accomplished in the last 22 years.”
The former “Killer Instinct” host said Hollywood is trying to “demonize” him and turn him into a “bad guy” for catching pedophiles “by doing what I thought was a very good job.”
“You have to question the reasons for not coming forward and speaking to me or anyone I have worked closely with over the years,” he said.
“And they didn’t want to hear that Chris Hansen was a good guy. They didn’t want to hear that this job was important,” Hansen added.
“In a way, it’s a very important piece to me and to the show, which is weird.”
Page Six reached out to representatives for both Pattinson and Oppenheim for comment but did not immediately hear back.
In August, Hansen previously lampooned his decision to cast the 40-year-old star of “Twilight” as himself in the psychological crime thriller.
“I couldn’t pick my own guy,” he said on the “Serialously” podcast at the time, discussing his thoughts on the upcoming A24 movie.
“I always thought about it; I discussed it years ago, I prepared a script.” Denis Leary [would] Play with me, depending on the age of all of them,” he shared.
Hansen realized that Hollywood wanted “a commercial effort to achieve success.”
In response, Pattinson said he hoped Hansen would enjoy the film.
“In a way, I hope the amount of inspiration his character brings to a lot of people who have been in this business for years,” the “Batman” actor said at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month.
“I hope that’s some kind of compliment,” he added.