Robert Pattinson on Primetime

    by Jgrao: Robert Pattinson

    Robert Pattinson is reflecting on how his approach to playing Chris Hansen shifted as PRIMETIME developed. The project centers on the relationship between Chris and Decoy Dan while they create a TV show about the most serious subject you possibly can make it about. It gets into that blurred space where method acting meets reality, yet they still have to follow entertainment laws to get people watching. The whole thing explores what happens when performance starts crossing into real life.

    Transcript (en)

    There's also something very meta about Primetime, because we see how both Chris Hansen and Decoy Dan get into their roles, how they rehearse and deliver a line, but that's also what you two are doing as actors. Did you find any similarities between your acting process and how you approach getting into character, and how your characters get into their roles? Yeah, I mean, I think it was definitely not really as much a thing. in the original script. And I think as we were developing, it became more and more and more about performance. And as Chris and Dan's relationship became the kind of centerpiece of the story, like it's just really interesting to kind of because it's one of those fascinating things where they are making a TV show. Like at the end of it, that's what's happening. It's making a TV show about the most serious subject you possibly can can make it about. But you're still subject to the same laws of entertainment. You've got to get people to watch it. And I think, I guess the approach of it, it's an exaggerated thing about getting into character, but it is that there's some things about method acting and stuff where it's kind of crossing into that sort of area where you're kind of saying you're performing, but you're also not performing, and what's real and what isn't. And there's definitely that. It's erring into that kind of world. Thank you.