Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes moves through security while on her way to court on March 17, 2023 in San Jose, California.
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes moves through security while on her way to court on March 17, 2023 in San Jose, California.
The Elizabeth Holmes scandal continues to enthrall people even four years after her sentencing, as evidenced by the popularity of the first trailer for Nathan Fielder’s upcoming documentary on the Theranos founder. The shocking clip dropped Sunday and had 25 million views on X by Monday morning.
The film, “You Can See Everything,” which will be released by A24 in October, focuses on the month before Holmes went to prison, in which she gave Fielder’s crew unprecedented access to her daily life.
Holmes has steadfastly maintained that the company failed, but she didn’t commit fraud — yet the public has remained skeptical. In the trailer, as the camera focuses tightly on her face, her blue eyes wide, Holmes tells director Fielder, “I don’t have anything to deceive you on, of course I’m not deceiving you.”
The remainder of the clip — as much a teaser as a trailer — toggles from close-ups of Holmes to zeroing in Fielder’s face as he listens to her speak. “You’re being real right now?” he asks her. “I’m always being real,” she replies, smiling slightly as a baby coos in the background (Holmes has two children). It is one minute of utter tension, helped along by a haunting score.
The trailer dropped Sunday, timed with a screening at the Telluride Film Festival that had been kept secret. After viewing, Vanity Fair called the film “worth the wait,” while other posters described it as “insane,” “fascinating,” “clever,” and even “a work of genius.”
Holmes is currently serving out an 11-plus-year prison sentence in Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas. Her partner Billy Evans made headlines last year for reportedly raising money for a very similar healthcare startup to Theranos, which notoriously promised to diagnose illnesses through tests requiring only a very small amount of blood, but used traditional screening machines instead.
Fielder directed the film with Lance Oppenheim, who recently made the narrative film “Primetime,” a fictionalized look at the TV show “To Catch a Predator.” Starring Robert Pattinson, “Primetime” releases in San Francisco later this month.
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