"I Don’t Quite Know What I Went Through": 33 Behind-The-Scenes Details About "You Can See Everything" That Are Just As Wild As The Movie Itself

Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything mightiness beryllium the lone documentary that leaves you with much questions than answers by the extremity of its astir 3-hour runtime. It mightiness besides beryllium the lone movie that gets alien the much you larn astir however it came to exist.

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1. Nathan Fielder primitively had nary volition of appearing successful the documentary. During a screening astatine the New York Film Festival past month, Fielder explained that due to the fact that Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans kept addressing him directly, "the operators would commencement panning implicit to maine due to the fact that the conversations would beryllium long."

2. Which worked retired good for him due to the fact that it allowed him to propulsion backmost connected the couple. "They would accidental worldly that tickled a portion of my encephalon that was like, 'Something’s disconnected astir this.' Or I consciousness similar this is them trying to bash immoderate benignant of propaganda," helium told WIRED.

3. His on-screen relation developed organically; that was indispensable because, successful his words, "We realized, 'Oh, idiosyncratic has to propulsion back, and we can't conscionable fto them tally immoderate amusement they kinda wanna do.'"

4. This, incidentally, is besides what caused the filmmakers to alteration their filming strategy aft conscionable 1 day. Initially, they changeable with a azygous camera and an anamorphic lens. But they kept missing cardinal scenes portion changing retired lenses oregon repositioning equipment, truthful they abandoned that attack for a multi-camera documentary setup utilizing unit members from Fielder and Oppenheim's erstwhile projects.

5. The full unit consisted of conscionable 7 people, and they sometimes filmed for 16 hours a day.

6. Only 4 unit members were allowed wrong Holmes and Evans' location astatine immoderate fixed time. (Hmm, was it due to the fact that of the Wi-Fi?)

7. The unit sometimes couldn't hold connected what had really happened during filming. Oppenheim specifically references the ovum scene, explaining however "no 1 could hold literally" connected what had conscionable happened. He likened the acquisition to "the Zone" successful Tarkovsky's Stalker.

8. The filmmakers were fixed entree to profoundly backstage areas of Holmes and Evans' lives. Oppenheim discussed the couple's singular openness successful his Vulture interview, saying: "You get to their house, and her computer’s open. All of her emails are open. Her diary is unfastened connected the broadside of the couch."

9. They utilized 3 cameras to seizure antithetic angles simultaneously. Two operators followed the interactions utilizing precise agelong zoom lenses, and Oppenheimer would fell down the wide camera to seizure the larger country playing out.

10. That Billy Evans ablution country was not planned. The country arose organically during filming: Evans conscionable hopped into the ablution post-gym without immoderate informing to the crew.

11. The country is besides what caused the doc to person an R rating. "It seems similar helium truly had thing helium wanted to amusement to america and to the world," Oppenheim said.

12. Fielder inactive doesn't wholly recognize what happened portion making the movie. Even aft 3 years immersed successful Holmes and Evans' world, helium inactive isn't definite however to deliberation astir her oregon however overmuch to judge her. "I truly americium struggling to this time to recognize precisely what I experienced successful this," he said astatine a post-screening Q&A astatine the Telluride Film Festival. "I don’t rather cognize what I went through."

13. Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans primitively approached A24 earlier Fielder became involved. Negotiations fell isolated until Fielder heard astir what had happened and asked the workplace if helium could conscionable Holmes.

14. In fact, this each came astir because 1 evening, portion Fielder and Oppenheim were successful the Magic Castle (a backstage magic nine successful Hollywood with a strict ceremonial formal code), an assemblage subordinate yelled retired "Elizabeth Holmes" successful effect to a punctual from the magician. This led Oppenheim to bring up the rumor that Holmes had approached A24. Fielder called A24 the adjacent day, and little than 2 weeks aboriginal the squad was mounting up production.

15. Fielder wanted to scope retired successful portion because helium had conscionable work Bad Blood, a 2018 Theranos exposé by John Carreyrou, and wanted to recognize wherefore Holmes went soundless successful the aftermath of her trial, lone to resurface years aboriginal looking to archer her story. He told A24: "I don't truly cognize what the space is, but determination is thing tickling successful my brain."

16. Bad Blood, by the way, has climbed backmost up bestseller lists 8 years aft work successful the aftermath of You Can See Everything.

17. Because Holmes was astir to spell to jailhouse and cipher knew what would hap oregon what footage they would capture, A24 agreed that Fielder and Oppenheim didn't person to present a finished documentary and could locomotion distant from the task should they tendency to.

18. Fielder checked successful with Holmes daily, peculiarly if determination was tension, to marque definite the household was comfy having a movie unit successful their location during her past 34 days of freedom.

19. He was confused that neither she nor Evans ever voiced a azygous doubt. "It didn't marque consciousness to me," helium told WIRED. "I decidedly would not privation a camera unit pursuing maine for the past period of state that I would have."

20. Fielder says Holmes was somewhat acquainted with his enactment and that she told him her favourite movie was Elf.

21. Fielder was amazed by Holmes erstwhile helium archetypal met her. "I expected a small much outward anxiousness and a tendency to control," helium said. But helium didn't spot her arsenic controlling astatine all, which was "very jarring" for the director.

22. A24 unveiled the documentary conscionable weeks earlier it deed theaters. The movie premiered secretly astatine Telluride successful aboriginal September, up of its October 16 theatrical release. Attendees were asked to motion NDA's and support the movie's premise a concealed until it's authoritative release.

23. You Can See Everything grossed astir $15.6 cardinal domestically connected opening play contempt playing successful conscionable 855 theaters, making it the second-biggest opening ever for a non-musical documentary.

24. Fielder said that determination was an accrued effort connected Evans' portion to power the process towards the extremity of the project, to the constituent that the squad chopped disconnected communication.

25. Just earlier the movie came out, Fielder got a telephone telephone from Holmes successful prison, who helium hadn't heard from successful implicit six months. She told him she hadn't seen overmuch astir the film, but said "I spot you" to him twice.

26. Amanda Seyfried agreed to enactment aft a little telephone call. At Telluride, Fielder said helium initially doubted she would beryllium interested. Instead, she invited the filmmakers to her flat and agreed to beryllium filmed.

27. Only a fewer twelve radical knew the movie existed earlier its premiere. It was kept apical concealed for 3 years, partly because Holmes and Evans were disquieted astir attention. Paparazzi yet began milling astir their filming location, and the filmmakers didn't privation their engagement to go a quality communicative oregon power however their subjects behaved.

28. Security guards used night-vision goggles to forestall radical from signaling its Telluride premiere. On apical of that, attendees had to unafraid their phones successful pouches, and guards monitored the auditorium utilizing night-vision equipment.

29. Emma Stone—who moderated the Q&A afterwards—personally asked the attendees to not spoil the documentary and Seyfried's information successful it until the film's theatrical release.

30. Emma Stone besides connected the filmmakers with Seyfried, who, knowing Fielder from projects specified arsenic Nathan For You, was initially disquieted that helium was trying to prank her.

31. Seyfried wasn't initially asked to beryllium successful the movie astatine each — Fielder and Oppenheim approached her to summation a amended knowing of their subject. Then Seyfried herself suggested playing Elizabeth Holmes again.

32. The filmmakers reconstructed the visitant country of Federal Prison Camp Bryan wholly from representation for Seyfried's reenactments. Oppenheim explained that erstwhile Fielder visited Holmes astatine the situation successful Texas, helium wasn't allowed to instrumentality photographs, videos, oregon adjacent a pen and paper.

33. And since Fielder couldn't instrumentality notes during these visits, helium would telephone Oppenheim instantly to springiness him a "moment-by-moment play-by-play" helium would past transcribe.

For a movie called You Can See Everything, there's seemingly a batch we inactive haven't seen. Which is benignant of the point.