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Robert Pattinson is weighing in after Chris Hansen criticized his latest  Primetime  film, which draws inspiration from Hansen's  To Catch a Predator  series.

Pattinson addressed the matter during his appearance at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, speaking at a press conference for the Lance Oppenheim-directed A24 thriller.

 Obviously, I hope he likes the movie,  he said, according to a video posted to Instagram by People.

The  Twilight  actor, 40, who stars as Hansen in the film, added,  I never really set out to make a movie about Chris Hansen. I never really thought about it, and then I saw the script, and there's something electrifying about it.

8 Robert Pattinson (pictured at the Venice Film Festival) addressed Chris Hansen's criticism of  Primetime  during a press conference for the A24 film. Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock

8  Obviously, I hope he likes the movie,  Pattinson said. WireImage

 I would hope, in some ways, the amount of inspiration that his character has given so many people who are involved in this for years now … I hope it's some kind of compliment. 

Pattinson also recalled watching Hansen's Dateline NBC series when he was younger, saying there was something  magnetic  about the journalist's presence.

 Something he's doing is the reason why people are still talking about that show 20 years later, and it's not solely to do with the subject matter  he said.  I just think there was something about the show that was very groundbreaking … kind of breaking the rules of television and also, in some ways, bureaucracy. 

8 Recalling that he watched  To Catch a Predator  when he was younger, Pattinson described Hansen's presence as  magnetic.  (Hansen is pictured above.)  MTV/Courtesy Everett Collection

8  Something he's doing is the reason why people are still talking about that show 20 years later,  Pattinson (seen above in character) said of Hansen. A24/ YOUTUBE

Even after watching what he described as  literally thousands of hours  of material related to the series, Pattinson said he  still can't really put his fi

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