Elizabeth Holmes’ partner, Billy Evans, is sharing his true thoughts about their A24 documentary, You Can See Everything.
“I loved [it],” Evans, 34, said in a Friday, November 13, teaser for his upcoming CBS Sunday Morning interview when grilled about receiving a so-called villain edit in the final cut. “I would have preferred for that not to be the case, but it’s entertainment.”
The new movie, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, follows Holmes, 42, and Evans in the months before the disgraced Theranos founder reported to prison in 2023.
“I think my goal was to have people see Elizabeth,” Evans said, while acknowledging how the final product made him appear “conniving” to audiences. “When I watch that movie, I see the person that I love and exactly who she is.”
Holmes and Evans, who share two children, opened their rental house to the crew to share their story. Fielder, 43, later brought in Amanda Seyfried, who famously portrayed Holmes in Hulu’s award-winning series The Dropout, to help with the project once Holmes was in prison.
“This was two years after we had shot in that beach house with them. We were just like, ‘Where do we go next?’ The Dropout kept coming up,” Fielder told Rolling Stone in a profile published earlier this month. “Elizabeth’s parents really had very strong feelings about it, and they felt it was one of the main ways the general public knew about who Elizabeth Holmes was, so we thought it would be interesting to talk to you.”
Fielder asked his The Curse costar Emma Stone for Seyfried’s number before giving the Testament of Ann Lee star, 40, a virtual pitch for You Can See Everything.
“We had a 30-minute Zoom, and you were like, ‘Yeah, come over with cameras,’” he recalled. “We wanted to show you what became the first half of the film, and then we would talk about it. That’s all you agreed to.”
Seyfried, who initially thought Fielder was solely seeking advice for the film, told the outlet she was “totally game to do whatever [was] needed” as a self-described fan.
“It was just your energy, and how much time you had spent [on this project], and that nobody knew this was happening,” Seyfried mused. “I just felt like I was totally game because I was so invested in what you were doing, and already had this strange level of trust in you guys.”
In addition to speaking with Fielder about Holmes’ scandal, Seyfried also filmed a conversation with Evans and portrayed the former scientist in several reenactment scenes.
