Caught in the Acting
“If somebody takes your name and image and makes money from it in a commercial enterprise, is that stealing somebody’s identity? I don’t know,” former To Catch a Predator host says
Chris Hansen would like you to take a seat … anywhere but at a screening of Primetime, the upcoming biopic in which Robert Pattinson portrays the former Dateline reporter, famous for his To Catch a Predator show. He hasn’t yet seen the film, which premiered last week at the Venice Film Festival, and he doesn’t want to, according to a new interview.
Instead, he told the The Hollywood Reporter he’s not taking it sitting down. He’s consulting with lawyers and hypothesizing on whether or not Pattinson’s portrayal of him in a fictionalized film, which he says exaggerates how thirsty he was for a hit with Predator, breaks laws.
“Obviously, I’m a public figure, and the threshold for defamation is high,” Hansen said to a question over Daryl Hannah’s similar objections to Love Story. “A number of things have to be shown. Are there other, more creative legal theories that could hold them accountable? Maybe. Is it identity theft? What separates this from identity theft?
