You see how this looks, right? Now we do.
Lance Oppenheim‘s Primetime hit the big screen inside Sala Grande Saturday for a much anticipated world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The A24 pic casts Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen — who repeatedly uttered that phrase to alleged pedophiles after they were confronted by camera crews — and the audience caught what they put down and responded with a nearly eight-minute electric standing ovation.
It was a packed house inside the theater with the entire cast joining Oppenheim and Pattinson as well as some notable Hollywood auteurs and stars. A few rows back behind the film’s creative team were Ari Aster, Chloe Zhao, Mona Fastvold and Amanda Seyfried (who snuck in after the lights went down before the premiere) and others. At one point, Aster was among a group of attendees that began chanting “Lance! Lance! Lance! Lance!” in honor of Oppenheim.
Shortly before that, Pattinson turned to around to greet his partner, Suki Waterhouse, with a kiss after she had been cheering enthusiastically for the film. Spotted capturing the scene on his iPhone was Jeff Zucker, the former NBC chief who plays himself in the film and hit the Lido in support of Primetime as he oversaw the run of To Catch a Predator as a Dateline franchise.
