"The danger is that you’re always trying to find balance in your life. It’s almost a simpler life to say, ‘I’m just going to go after this one goal’ – it’s easier to understand, but it’s also easy to let everything else in your life wither. It’s much more complicated to fight wars on multiple fronts at the same time."
In what is easily the biggest year of his career – following roles in The Drama and Christopher Nolan’s mega-hit The Odyssey – he’s now starring in media satire Primetime. It’s the first film he’s helped produce from the ground up, marking a huge departure in his career.
"If you wanted to meet an editor or if you wanted to meet a cinematographer... if you’re just an actor, you can’t really say, 'Oh, can we set a meeting?' There’s nothing to talk about, right?" Having a production company gave him legitimacy, as he began to consider taking his career beyond simply acting for others.
In truth, the Barnes-raised actor already has a wealth of industry experience, after being on screen for over two decades now, first coming to attention as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
The "energy" of a production company was another matter. "You start to feel much more at the heart of the industry as a whole, rather than just waiting for agents to call you."
Yet after starting his own outfit, he began to take production more seriously – especially once he received unproduced scripts. “Suddenly, it made me really, really excited about finding new material, which I wouldn’t be looking for necessarily.”
Using adult decoys to ensnare internet predators who were grooming young children online, Hansen would bust in with the cameras in tow, exposing these individuals as the cops waited outside.
"The thing which I found interesting about the movie was that they are just trying to make the best TV show possible. That’s literally what they’re supposed to do, and that’s what their job is. But you don’t know who your audience is ever, and you can’t control it, and you can’t control how they feel about it, and where it wants to go."
View Green Video on the source websiteAs Hansen chases greater ratings (the show is up against ABC’s mega-hot Lost), it’s really about the lengths they go to for unparalleled media success. "The interesting thing to me about the show was that because it was such a big hit, then you’re suddenly subject to the same laws of the entertainment industry that every other show has," notes Pattinson.
While the real-life Hansen has already critiqued the film (recently noting it was "so detached from reality or anything I’ve experienced then or now doing the investigations"), Pattinson says the idea was not to be didactic.
Excitingly for Pattinson, the film is the first feature by documentarian Lance Oppenheim – who is having a remarkable year, given he’s also co-director of You Can See Everything, the much-anticipated Elizabeth Holmes doc that’s currently taking America by storm.
"You can tell that he’s going to be just massive," says Pattinson. "He’s a massively talented guy, and his previous work really speaks for itself. He was 28 when we first met" – he’s now 30 – "and you can see it means so much to him to have something to prove in this movie."
Those conversations with Oppenheim even stretched to the delivery room, as it turns out. "Very few people will allow the amount of phone calls [I made]," he laughs. "I mean, literally, Lance had a baby three days before we started shooting, and we were on FaceTime with him, and he’s sitting in the doorway of the delivery room. His wife is literally having a baby. His wife said, ‘Lance – get off!’ And he’s like ‘Two more minutes!’ And there’s very few people who would do that!"
Spending months perfecting Hansen’s American accent, Pattinson dictated his take on Hansen’s voice into his voice notes on his phone. Oppenheim, amusingly, calls the performance a mix of Hansen, Dracula and the Tom Cruise character Jerry Maguire – but the actor calls the role "high-risk, high-reward", well aware that it could go wrong. It may be why there was such a do-or-die feel to the production; this was Pattinson’s moment to shift gears.
Like Oppenheim, Pattinson became a father himself in March 2024, with his actress fiancée Suki Waterhouse giving birth to their baby daughter. The actor-producer also turned 40 earlier this year, prompting thoughts of that age-old cliché that life begins...
"I was just terrified," he admits. "As soon as I hit my birthday, I was like, 'I can never stop working ever again until retirement!' But no, I couldn’t be more grateful. I mean, you can’t do this job without the opportunities. I’m just a big proponent [of]... if the opportunity’s there, you have to do it. You have to figure out your life around it."
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