Directors Reveal Filming Surprises and Challenges in "You Can See Everything" Documentary
Comedian Nathan Fielder and director Lance Oppenheim said they captured the final month of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' freedom, describing unexpected twists in the film’s structure and the difficulty of keeping access as the story unfolded, according to their interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Earlier, filmmaker Errol Morris disclosed that he holds an unreleased two-hour interview with Holmes from 2015 and is weighing a release, as reported by Variety. The documentary, which blends conventional interviews with staged reenactments to probe truth and deception, became the top-grossing U. S.
documentary in 15 years, prompting a surge in Theranos-related podcast and series viewership, The Guardian noted. A communications professor highlighted Holmes’s use of “paltering”—telling truths to create false impressions—an element explored in the film, per Fortune. The ambiguous narrative sparked debate over Holmes’s portrayal, Slate reported, while a former Theranos employee told host Meghan McCain that the film omitted key evidence of alleged deceptions, TheWrap said.
