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    Watch: Amanda Seyfried Reveals How Nathan Fielder Convinced Her to Join ‘You Can See Everything’

    Amanda Seyfried actually didn’t see everything. 

    In her first conversation about her participation in Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, You Can See Everything, The Dropout alum revealed she signed onto the project without consulting her team.

    “When you said you had 90 minutes of footage for me to see and help you work through, I was like, ‘Oh, he just wants some advice,’” Seyfried recalled of her earliest conversations with Fielder—with whom she was connected through Emma Stone—in a joint interview alongside Oppenheim for Rolling Stone published Nov. 11. “He just wants us to know about my experience playing her and researching her and going into the mind of that quote-unquote character I portrayed.’”

    However, while Seyfried had previously said she’d never portray the disgraced Theranos founder after the limited series, Fielder and Oppenheim’s film, which released in theaters in early November, was too inspiring to pass up. 

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    “After the Zoom, I was totally game to do whatever you needed,” she continued. “It was just your energy [that persuaded me], and how much time you had spent [on this project], and that nobody knew this was happening.”

    But while Fielder has earned a reputation for truly shocking projects, Seyfried “wasn’t nervous” to work with The Rehearsal creator. 

    “There was no protection,” the 40-year-old—who acknowledged she had to remind herself to put on mascara before they began filming for the first time—continued. “There was no advocate for me. 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.”

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    Still, Seyfried admitted that as her involvement in the project grew—the Mean Girls alum ended up participating in reenactments as Holmes alongside Christopher Abbott, who played Holmes’ husband Billy Evans, as well as appearing as herself—she weighed “a lot of risk” in her mind. 

    In fact, Fielder emphasized that Seyfried had “no approval” over the scripts or dialogue in the film to ensure its documentary standard. 

    “There was always this vibration of risk and that sensation of: Am I going to destroy my career in some way?” the Mamma Mia star continued. “Am I going to get entangled in this, like, wasp’s nest with Billy? Am I gonna say the wrong thing? Am I gonna perpetuate negativity for her?”

    But now that the project has been out in the world for nearly a month, Seyfried clarified, “I don’t regret it at all.”

    You Can See Everything is now in theaters. For more about those involved in the Theranos scandal, keep reading…

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    Elizabeth HolmesTheranos officially dissolved in September 2018, three months after founder Elizabeth Holmes and company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were indicted on federal wire fraud charges for luring investors with the promise of a blood-testing technology that was not ready to bring to the masses.While awaiting trial, Holmes and partner Billy Evans welcomed son William in July 2021.She pleaded not guilty to all charges, but was convicted in January 2022 of one count of conspiracy to defraud investors, plus three wire fraud counts tied to specific investors, and subsequently sentenced to 11 years in prison.Holmes gave birth to daughter Invicta in February 2023. In her first prison interview, she told People in 2025, “I always wanted to be a mother. I truly did not think I would ever be convicted or found guilty.”A month before she was due to begin serving her time, Holmes and Evans opened up their San Diego, Calif., rental to Nathan Fielder and a small documentary crew. The result, You Can See Everything, is in theaters Oct. 16, 2026.Holmes reported to minimum-security Federal Prison Camp, Bryan in Texas on May 30, 2023. She’s scheduled to be transferred to a halfway house in August 2027.“I was silenced for a long time,” Holmes wrote in a Sept. 27 X post. “And then imprisoned. I am fighting to prove my innocence and come home to my babies and the love of my life.”

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    Sunny BalwaniBalwani, who was in a romantic relationship with Holmes while he was a Theranos executive, also pleaded not guilty on all counts.”He did not defraud Theranos investors, who were among the most sophisticated in the world,”his lawyer told Vanity Fair in 2018. “He did not defraud consumers, but instead worked tirelessly to empower them with access to their own health information.”Balwani was convicted of 10 counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in July 2022 and sentenced to 12 years and 11 months in federal prison, with U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds stating he “valued business success and personal wealth far more than patient safety.”The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case in October 2026.Balwani is incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc II, a low-security facility in California.

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    Tyler ShultzA grandson of former Secretary of State George Shultz, one of Theranos’ most prominent board members, Tyler Shultz interned at the company in 2013 and then was hired full-time as a research engineer.He has since become a sought-after public speaker on corporate ethics and his experience blowing the whistle on Theranos’ mismanagement and internal malpractice. Shultz founded the health diagnostics company Flux Biosciences in 2017 and is now a venture partner at Verge HealthlTech Fund, according to Linked In.When Holmes was convicted of fraud, he told NPR in 2022, “All of a sudden, it was just a weight was lifted. It’s over. I can’t believe it’s over.”He was staying with his parents when his wife texted him the verdict. And then, Shultz shared, “My family said, ‘Come on down we’re popping champagne. We’re celebrating.'”

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    Erika CheungLab associate Erika Cheung was also key in exposing wrongdoing at Theranos following her resignation after seven months at the company.”It wasn’t that we were trying to be alarmist or sabotage [Holmes] or that, as she thought, we were trying to come after her and had some vendetta against her,” Cheung told the Los Angeles Times in 2019. “I think we were all motivated by the fact that you can’t endanger the life of patients. This is healthcare.”By then, the UC Berkeley grad had moved to Hong Kong and was a program director at Betatron, a technology accelerator for founders and start-ups.She has since returned to the U.S., where she runs Ethics in Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit she founded in 2019 that also counts Shultz as an advisor.Calling herself and Shultz “lucky in a certain way,” Cheung told the Times, “It was a big relief once the company went under that we did come out of this OK and it didn’t damage our careers.”
    Ana ArriolaHolmes poached Ana Arriola, who helped conceive the original iPhone, from Apple to be her chief design architect—part of her vision to help give her blood-testing device, the Edison, a sleek look.Far more culturally impactful: Arriola told Holmes all about Steve Jobs‘ Issey Miyaki black turtlenecks.As Arriola put it on ABC News’ The Dropout podcast, “And the rest is couture history.”She joined Theranos in 2007 and left after four months, concerned that the Edison’s as-yet unreliable results could affect the treatment for cancer patients who had submitted blood samples. Holmes “gave me an ultimatum,” Arriola said, “suppress it and continue on business as usual or I said I was resigning.”After Theranos, Arriola worked for companies including Sony, Samsung and Microsoft. She has since married, become a mom and moved to Japan, where, according to LinkedIn, she is an executive advisor for venture studio OrionsWave in Tokyo, as well as strategic advisor and director at architecture and design firm OEO Studio.
    Avie TevanianAs chief software technology officer at Apple, Avie Tevanian led the team that developed Mac OS before leaving in 2006 and subsequently joining Theranos’ board of directors after—like everyone else—being impressed by Holmes.”I think what she didn’t expect was that I would actually ask a lot of questions,” Tevanian said in The Dropout, “and that if things weren’t going as they should be going that I would ask tough questions.” When he told the board he would only stay on if Holmes was replaced as CEO by someone more qualified, a fellow member suggested he help them help Holmes, or resign. So, he left.”I was done with Theranos,” Tevanian told ABC News’ Rebecca Jarvis. “I had seen so many things that were bad go on. I would never expect anyone would behave the way that she behaved as a CEO. And believe me, I worked for Steve Jobs. I saw some crazy things. But Elizabeth took it to a new level.”Tevanian is a co-founder of NextEquity Partners.
    Dr. Phyllis GardnerThere was at least one person who told Holmes that what she was trying to do with the Edison was impossible: Stanford professor of medicine Dr. Phyllis Gardner.Holmes first shared her blood test idea when she was a freshman. And when the clinical pharmacologist told her it would never work, Holmes “just kind of blinked her eyes and nodded, and left,” Gardner said on The Dropout. “It was just a 19-year-old talking who’d taken one course in microfluidics, and she thought she was gonna make something of it.”Also a former senior associate dean at Stanford University School of Medicine, Gardner died Sept. 10, 2025, at the age of 75.“Integrity ran through everything she did,” her husband, Dr. Andrew Perlman, told the Stanford Medicine News Center. “She couldn’t abide dishonesty in science or in people.”
    Channing RobertsonThe former Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs at Stanford’s School of Engineering was a mentor to Holmes and Theranos’ first board member. He compared the company’s founder to the “Mozarts and the Beethovens and the Newtons, the Lavoisiers and the Einsteins and the da Vincis.”As he explained to Bloomberg Businessweek, per ABC News, “These people who become scientists and artists and musicians, I think, possess a very special capability. It was becoming more and more clear to me that she had it. I was in the presence of somebody who was unlike anything that I had seen before.”Some of that was, indeed, very true.Robertson remains a professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Stanford.

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