In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes meets her equal in comedian Nathan Fielder

Nathan Fielder's documentary about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has created a constellation of colliding personas that interrogate the very nature of authenticity. “Isn’t it weird that I, like, did a TV show about kind of a business scam, and you got in trouble for like … a business scam?” comedian and filmmaker Nathan Fielder gently asks Elizabeth Holmes. One month before the notorious Theranos CEO surrendered to begin her 11-year criminal fraud sentence in 2023, Holmes and her husband contacted A24 as a last-ditch effort to exonerate her in the public eye, suggesting they send a film crew to document her final days of freedom. Alongside director Lance Oppenheim, Fielder — a cringe-comedy mastermind whose work often walks the line between fact and fiction — embraced the impossible project of figuring out who the infamous Stanford dropout really is.

“I never actually made that connection,” says Holmes. “I think it’s a pretty different situation.” No one is better prepared than Fielder to probe the depths of Holmes’ psyche. His satirical docu-reality show “Nathan for You” catapulted him to cult stardom as he assumed the role of an exaggerated, deadpan version of himself who tries to help struggling small businesses by executing asinine interventions. In one early episode that went viral, Fielder convinces a coffee shop to change its name