Nathan Fielder shares Elizabeth Holmes' surprising reaction to new movie

We have 8,000 questions after watching “You Can See Everything,” one of which is: What does Elizabeth Holmes think of all this?

The enigmatic Silicon Valley CEO is the subject of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s masterful new documentary, which brilliantly explores truth, deception and the ways we all perform in our daily lives. The three-hour film follows Holmes for 34 days in 2023 before she surrenders to prison after being convicted of conspiracy and wire fraud charges tied to her faulty healthcare startup Theranos.

In a new interview with Wired magazine, published Monday, Oct. 19, Fielder reveals that he spoke to Holmes after “You Can See Everything” (now in theaters) made its surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival early last month. At that point, he had not heard from her in more than six months as she continued serving out her sentence at Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.

“I answered the phone, and I said, ‘Hey, how's it going?’” Fielder told Wired. “She asked how I was doing. I asked her if she had seen any stuff about the film coming out and how she felt about it all. She told me that she had seen some stuff, but most things she just isn't seeing, so she's heard things, but she hasn't really read anything. And then, at the end, she said to me: ‘I trust you.’ … I said, ‘OK, thanks.’ ”

They kept talking about “other stuff,” Fielder added. “She talked about her kids, and then some updates that are not really my place to share. But then after that, she said again, at the end of the call: ‘I trust you.’ And I don't know what she meant by that.”

Throughout the in-depth Wired cover story, Fielder shared that Holmes and her fiancé, Billy Evans, initially approached production company and distributor A24 about making a documentary that would show the “real Elizabeth.” Fielder became fascinated by her after reading John Carreyrou’s 2018 book “Bad Blood” and asked for a chance to film with Holmes and her family, with the understanding that nothing might come of the project.

Elizabeth Holmes was not 'controlling' over 'You Can See Everything'

Because Fielder is best known for his deadpan, meta comedy, he kept wondering why she chose him to tell her story.

“Why is she wanting to speak and have her life documented and do it in this way?” Fielder said. “And even after I met her, if I didn’t know what I knew, I would just think I was talking with a very affable, soft-spoken, kind person. But then I kept having this thing where I was tracking my thoughts about how honest she was being, or if I was being manipulated in some way.”

He also expected her to be more outwardly anxious. But Holmes never asked Fielder and his camera crew to leave, and she didn't seem to mind being filmed for the last month of her freedom before federal prison.

“That was very jarring for me, because she did not come across as controlling,” Fielder said. “I thought the situation that she was in, there would be a lot about it. We’re in this tiny beach house [in San Diego]. That’s a tense environment. The weird thing is that she let us come there without trying to be like, ‘OK, well, what’s your angle? What are you gonna do here? What is this interview gonna be about?’ You know, there wasn’t that stuff, and I totally expected we would get all that.”

Billy Evans says partner Elizabeth Holmes looks 'insane' in new movie

It goes without saying that Holmes hasn't seen a cut of the film or released an official response. Evans, meanwhile, appeared on the "All-In" podcast on Oct. 15, where he described how his family and friends were initially skeptical about him dating Holmes, whom he met in 2017. They were engaged the next year and now have two young kids together.

His loved ones "would meet her and spend time with her and see her in a totally natural environment, like going on a hike or helping a friend,” Evans said. “Every opinion of her would radically shift. That was the intention of the film: to help scale that up and allow other people to sit with her and make up their own minds.”

Evans told the podcast that Holmes admittedly “looks insane” in trailers for “You Can See Everything,” and that this could be “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done.” But he suggested that he'd be watching the movie with an open mind.

“Am I nervous? I have been through so many intense, surreal experiences that it takes a bit to raise my blood pressure,” Evans said. “With this, there’s certainly concern, but it’s ultimately our decision.”