{"id":839715,"date":"2026-09-07T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839715\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T17:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:56:11","slug":"nathan-fielders-surprise-elizabeth-holmes-documentary-debuts-at-telluride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839715\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Fielder\u2019s surprise Elizabeth Holmes documentary debuts at Telluride"},"content":{"rendered":"

TELLURIDE, Colo. \u2014 A provocative and previously unannounced documentary from comedian Nathan Fielder and director Lance Oppenheim that features an intimate look at Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes <\/a>and her family premiered Sunday night in a secrecy-shrouded screening at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.<\/p>\n

The movie, \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d includes footage of Holmes and her romantic partner, Billy Evans, and their two children interacting with Fielder at a rental home in San Diego in the final days before Holmes entered federal prison in 2023<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Portions of the documentary in which Fielder is communicating with Holmes off-camera \u2014 including in prison in Texas \u2014 are re-created with the help of an A-list actress. The actress\u2019s identity becomes a plot point that Fielder asked attendees not to reveal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m struggling to this day to understand exactly what I experienced,\u201d Fielder said during the post-screening Q&A, of living with Holmes and Evans. \u201cI don\u2019t know why they want me there. I\u2019m a weird guy. I don\u2019t get it. That messed with my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has already garnered some rave reviews.<\/p>\n

The film originated in 2023 when Oppenheim told his friend Fielder, who is best known for his deadpan, socially awkward comedic style on television shows such as \u201cThe Rehearsal\u201d and \u201cNathan for You,\u201d that Holmes and Evans had approached indie studio A24 about having their story documented. <\/p>\n

Holmes has been the subject of unauthorized media, including documentaries and a fictionalized Hulu series starring Amanda Seyfried. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the story was fully told,\u201d Fielder said. But, \u201cI was personally curious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within a few days, A24 facilitated a meeting between the filmmakers and the couple. And 34 days before Holmes entered prison in Texas, Fielder, Oppenheim and a small camera crew embedded with the family. <\/p>\n

Much of the nearly three-hour documentary shows Fielder grappling with whether to take Holmes\u2019 words to him at face value. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would I deceive you?\u201d Holmes asks Fielder. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason for me to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holmes maintains to Fielder that she never lied in the launching of Theranos, the blood-testing company she founded in 2003 at age 19; in 2022, Holmes was convicted of fraud and misleading investors, and sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.<\/p>\n

The movie depicts the unusual relationship between Holmes and Evans, who admits to posting from Holmes\u2019 official X account as if he was her, and appears to make key business decisions on her behalf. What exactly Holmes knows about Evans\u2019 activities and whether she condones them is a subject of some mystery in the documentary, which suggests parallels to her relationship with Ramesh \u201cSunny\u201d Balwani<\/a>, her ex-boyfriend and the former president and chief operating officer of Theranos, who is serving a 12-year prison sentence for wire fraud and conspiracy.<\/p>\n

In some scenes, Holmes and Evans are seen making calls to prospective partners to launch a \u201cTheranos 2.0\u201d business, which Evans says he plans to build while Holmes is in prison. In other scenes, they walk together on the beach at sunset and whisk eggs for breakfast.<\/p>\n

There are startling displays of what seem to be private moments, as when, at one point, Evans allows the crew to film him showering fully naked.<\/p>\n

The footage also shows Holmes grappling with her imminent imprisonment, including when she cries on the phone while learning about what her living conditions will be and asks, \u201cWhat is an invasive strip search?\u201d <\/p>\n

During the Q&A, which was conducted by actor Emma Stone, a friend and collaborator of Fielder\u2019s, Fielder said that Holmes and Evans had not yet seen the film, but that the filmmakers were in touch with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cBilly was trying to exert a lot of control,\u201d Fielder said, of the filmmaking process. \u201cIt caused our communication to break down. The challenging thing is he\u2019s still sort of the conduit to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear why they chose Fielder, but his career does offer some context. Much of his work has poked at the idiosyncrasies and absurdities of modern business, some of it toeing the line between documentary and fiction. He first burst onto the national comedy scene in 2013 with \u201cNathan for You\u201d on Comedy Central, then making HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Rehearsal,\u201d the second season of which features Fielder getting his commercial pilot\u2019s license and flying a Boeing 737<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The logistics of the Telluride screening were highly unusual, with the festival keeping the title secret until the last possible moment, and requiring audience members to stow their phones in secure Yondr pouches to prevent their use during the screening and Q&A. As members of the press were filing into the theater, a representative for A24 handed them notebooks and pens.<\/p>\n

Despite the secrecy, rumors of the project began to percolate at the festival over the weekend, and the line to see the film in the 650-seat Werner Herzog Theater started forming hours before showtime.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those of you who don\u2019t know who we are and are disappointed, I apologize,\u201d Fielder said, addressing the crowd before the screening began. \u201cBut hopefully by the end of this film, you\u2019ll be less disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the audience was in the theater watching the movie, A24 dropped the trailer<\/a> online, and announced that it plans to release the film in October.<\/p>\n

Shortly after A24 released the trailer, Holmes\u2019 X account shared it, with the words, \u201cI\u2019m always being real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TELLURIDE, Colo. \u2014 A provocative and previously unannounced documentary from comedian Nathan Fielder and director Lance Oppenheim that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-839715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}