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Amanda Seyfried is finally ready to speak You can see everything. In Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary Elizabeth Holmes, Seyfried reprized her role as the doomed founder of Theranos in several crucial reenactments and served as a much-needed sounding board for Fielder. She eventually got so involved that she flew to Austin to have dinner with Fielder and Billy Evans, Holmes’ partner, which led to an explosive conversation about Chinese food. Seyfried remained tight-lipped about her involvement in the project until Wednesday, when rolling stone published a conversation between her, Fielder and Oppenheim. Unsurprisingly, she has not reconciled with Evans since that meeting.
Seyfried told Fielder that she found Evans “disgusting” when she first watched footage of him and Holmes in their San Diego rental home. Her immediate negative response to the whole Evans deal was actually what fueled her desire to meet him in person. “I just wanted all the information I could get on Billy,” Seyfried told Fielder. “I became this strange Billy detective because I had felt very strong negative feelings from him in the images. I felt like I needed to meet this guy.”
As you probably already know if you’ve seen the movie, Seyfried found that her feelings for Evans “only got worse” after meeting him. Apparently, she really tried to be on her best behavior while at Evans’ house – “I wanted to put out a little bit of my disdain, because I’m in his house now with his kids – with their kids,” she told Fielder and Oppenheim. “I always want to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I felt bad for saying a lot of shit about him up until that point. Because look, I don’t like him. But I’m walking into this man’s house.”
Despite his best efforts, things changed during dinner, when Evans attacked Seyfried for his portrayal of Holmes in The dropout and for calling Charlie Kirk a “hater” on Instagram. “There was no reason for him to become so aggressive,” Seyfried said, a word she chose because it was “diplomatic.” She said once Evans “disrespected” her, she felt like “the gloves were off.”
“I was in a state of mind where I was like, ‘OK, this guy is being disrespectful, and I’m here at his house, I’m going to discuss it because I actually have a pretty strong stance on things,'” Seyfried said. “I don’t like the way he uses this human being, his wife – the person he says he builds monuments of love to – as a tool. Maybe he respects her, but he behaves like he doesn’t respect her.”
After watching the three-and-a-half-hour documentary, it’s hard to disagree with Seyfried. But maybe the AI hologram of Holmes hanging around Evans’ dining room has a different opinion.
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