{"id":651951,"date":"2026-10-20T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/651951\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:32:11","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-dropout-after-nathan-fielders-elizabeth-holmes-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/651951\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about ‘The Dropout’ after Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim\u2019s experimental Elizabeth Holmes documentary \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d<\/a> is not only one of the most buzzed-about films of the year; it has proved the hype at the box office, already making $15 million during its opening weekend<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t seen it yet, stop reading now and come back after you do. And if you have seen it, don\u2019t miss our spoiler-heavy revelations about \u201cYou Can See Everything.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n

One last warning before we proceed: Spoilers ahead. <\/p>\n

Before \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d put Holmes back in the spotlight, Amanda Seyfried portrayed the Theranos CEO in the Hulu limited series \u201cThe Dropout,\u201d<\/a> winning a lead actress Emmy for the role.<\/p>\n

In the documentary, Holmes tells Fielder she has never watched the series. After his prodding, they watch it together \u2014 along with Holmes\u2019 partner Billy Evans \u2014 in a Del Mar beach cottage days before she is set to leave her family, including two young children, to report to a Texas prison to serve an 11-year sentence after being convicted of fraud<\/a>. <\/p>\n

We revisited our previous coverage of \u201cThe Dropout,\u201d including what Seyfried told us about preparing for the role and what Liz Meriwether, who created the series, had to say about the project<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In an interview with The Times in 2022, Seyfried recounted telling filmmaker David Fincher<\/a> about the role, who made a suggestion about how to play Holmes: \u201cHe turned to me, and he said, \u2018This Theranos girl, she\u2019s not listening.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018You\u2019re right!\u2019 Watch her listen. She\u2019s playing listening. … Everything is like, \u2018Do you see me listen? Make sure you see that I\u2019m listening to you.\u2019 It\u2019s one of the things that helped her succeed. So much of it was an act, and her bubble was bound to burst. It must have been so tiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

During \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d we observe Holmes watching Seyfried dance in a scene from \u201cThe Dropout,\u201d a much-memed moment in the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favorite thing was getting to express Elizabeth Holmes\u2019 frustration through dance. A character working her s\u2014 out. A lot of it was based on the fact that she was a dance student,\u201d Seyfried said<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Holmes cringes at seeing it portrayed onscreen (if you\u2019ve ever had your own dancing or karaoke sessions broadcast, you know the feeling). <\/p>\n

In the documentary, Holmes and Evans also claim research wasn\u2019t done before creating the series. Seyfried told us she spent months listening to the 10 hours of deposition tapes in preparation, something she also mentions in \u201cYou Can See Everything.\u201d The actor, in a separate interview with The Times published in March 2022, also spoke about how she learned to mimic Holmes\u2019 baritone voice<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for the dialogue in \u201cThe Dropout,\u201d Meriwether discussed getting access to texts<\/a> sent between Holmes and her former romantic partner, Theranos COO Sunny Balwani, in an essay she wrote for The Envelope in August 2022. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had been on conference calls with lawyers for hours discussing every detail, every word, every action line in every script,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThe writers had to justify our choices based on the facts we had, so we had scoured the source material, trying to piece together the mystery of what had happened between Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani behind closed doors at Theranos. And here I was about to open an attachment with the actual text messages that Elizabeth and Sunny had written to each other. It was thrilling and infuriating.\u201d <\/p>\n

Dive deeper into \u201cThe Dropout,\u201d including the final episode in which a fictional version of Evans appears<\/a>, with our previous coverage below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim\u2019s experimental Elizabeth Holmes documentary \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d is not only one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-651951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}