We can thank Netflix dropping an Adam McKay comedy for Robert Pattinson's current hot streak

“I was doing a movie with Adam McKay, which fell apart, and I ended up having a big period where I wasn’t working when I recalibrated what I wanted to do,” Pattinson tells the magazine. First came Die My Love, in which Pattinson starred opposite Jennifer Lawrence. “And it’s been a cascade of all these projects [since then]. I just changed my mindset, going, ‘I don’t care about doing big movies or leads. I’m just going to do stuff I find interesting,'” he says. “And then somehow, I don’t understand how the scheduling actually even worked out, because I literally left Die My Love and flew to The Drama. I finished that and flew to Primetime basically the same day. I was kind of producing [Primetime] as well. We were prepping four films at the same time. But I think it’s worked out.” 

As far as Primetime, Pattinson says he wanted director Lance Oppenheim because he wanted to tap into an “Oliver Stone-y, Brian De Palma version of this movie” and thought the filmmaker was well suited for it. He doesn’t address any of Chris Hansen’s repeated issues with the movie (in fairness, it’s not clear when this interview was conducted) but he does explain a bit of how he wanted to get the voice down. “He has a podcast discussing his old cases, and I was just walking around constantly trying to imitate his voice, but it’s pretty dark material,” the actor says. “I’m wandering around the streets saying what he’s talking about, and people are incredibly confused with what’s going on.” Given how confused we all are about the real Hansen is wandering around and what he’s talking about, we’d say that’s a good sign.