SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “You Can See Everything,” now playing in theaters.
\n\nAbout halfway through Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything,” the film’s shock value ratchets up yet again. Even after a full-frontal scene from Holmes’ boyfriend Billy Evans and the convicted fraudster claiming she’s never told a lie, the movie dials it up to 11 with a meta appearance by actress Amanda Seyfried.
\n\nSeyfried memorably played the Theranos founder in Hulu’s 2022 series “The Dropout,” which Fielder shows Holmes and Evans for the first time — though it brings the real-life subject to tears. The documentary chronicles the 34 days ahead of Holmes’ 11-year prison sentence, and then Fielder introduces the Seyfried twist halfway through the film after Holmes is incarcerated.
\n\nFielder recruits Seyfried to get her take on some of his odd interactions with Holmes once she’s gone, given that the actress won an Emmy for playing her on “The Dropout.” The meta-ness of Seyfried returning to play Holmes snowballs into her reenacting real-life moments that Fielder and Oppenheim couldn’t capture on camera. Alongside her is “East of Eden” actor Christopher Abbott, who plays Evans, albeit with a…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/