Elizabeth Holmes's Partner Says She 'Looks Insane' in Her Doc's Trailer

Nathan Fielder's 'You Can See Everything' is projected to open to about $12 million, the second-best documentary start ever.

Billy Evans has only seen the trailer for Elizabeth Holmes's new documentary, and he told the "All-In" podcast, "She looks insane."

Evans, Holmes's longtime partner, said it in a conversation taped at the All-In Summit 2026 and posted online Wednesday, TheWrap reported. He hasn't watched the finished film, and he isn't sure he'll like it: "I might think this is like the dumbest thing I've ever done," he said on the podcast.

That's a big hedge from a man who, according to co-director Lance Oppenheim, brought the project to A24 with Holmes in the first place.

The movie is "You Can See Everything," a three-hour documentary from Nathan Fielder and Oppenheim about the stretch before Holmes went to federal prison. The Theranos founder was sentenced for defrauding investors, and she and Evans invited Fielder to stay with them in her final days before prison, opening up their private life to his camera. Evans is as central to the film as she is.

The teaser came first. A24 put it out in early September, on the same day the unannounced documentary played a secret screening at the Telluride Film Festival, and its signature beat is Holmes asking Fielder, "Why would I deceive you?" The studio set the theatrical release for Oct. 16, barely a month later, and it opened Friday.

Evans says the goal was to show a side of Holmes that years of coverage never captured, the one the people around her know. He told the podcast that friends and family who'd spent time with her away from the headlines, out on a hike or helping a friend, came away thinking about her completely differently.

Audiences don't seem to share his doubts. Even with Paramount's "Street Fighter" opening the same weekend, Deadline projects an opening of about $12 million, which it says would be the second-best start ever for a documentary. That's most of the $14.4 million that "RBG," the 2018 documentary IndieWire holds up as a sizable hit, earned in its entire run.

Thursday previews pointed the same way. The film took in $1.75 million on 855 screens, IndieWire reported, when the whole weekend had been forecast at $7 million to $8 million.

IndieWire hands part of the credit to the people behind the camera. Fielder's cult following comes from "Nathan for You" and "The Rehearsal," and Oppenheim's other A24 hit, "Primetime," with Robert Pattinson playing "To Catch a Predator" host Chris Hansen, has made more than $42 million domestically on a budget IndieWire put at $15 million.

The rest is Holmes herself. Amanda Seyfried already played her in a series that won an Emmy, Alex Gibney already made his documentary, and her story has turned into bestsellers and podcast after podcast. IndieWire argues the appetite still hasn't run out.

So the crowds are paying to watch the very thing Evans is bracing for. On whether he's nervous, he said he's lived through so many intense, surreal stretches that it takes a lot to raise his blood pressure, though he conceded this one worries him.

"But, you know, ultimately it's our decision," Evans said on the podcast.

Source: TheWrap, retrieved October 17, 2026. Other sources: uk.news.yahoo.com.