Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Primetime' - Robert Pattinson needs to catch his predator (and ratings)

Big night plan. Who are you? You should have a seat right there. I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC and we're doing a story on adults who try to meet teens online. You see how this looks, right? What's sort of fascinating about the story as a whole was like seeing someone who it's you're a journalist, you're supposed to be in some ways a passive rapporteur of what's going on and suddenly being recast in this thing where you're not only like front and center of it but you're kind of, your behavior is setting the tone of the show. My name is Dan Plowman. Do you know what you're auditioning for? So you are playing a 13 year old? Is there time for a rehearsal? We're gonna shoot the rehearsal. Come in. You're gonna love this. It's impossible to like play somebody else. It's kind of your, I mean I guess you could I wasn't particularly interested in doing a mimic of what he was doing but like initially I wasn't gonna act in it and when we were developing the script I just, something just like caught my inspiration and my focus on it. I don't understand what I'm doing here. What you're doing is more than acting. You're cleansing the world of an ancient evil. Let's catch us a predator. Who gave you permission to do this? You have no plan. I have to put him on television. You're gonna be so proud of me. I don't wanna be a bad person. Your definition of bad and my definition of bad are vastly different. What would have happened if I wasn't here?