Amanda Seyfried Addresses ‘You Can See Everything’ and Playing Elizabeth Holmes Again: ‘It’s Important’ to ‘Do Things That Scare Me’

Amanda Seyfried has finally spoken out about her secret involvement in the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything.”

When asked on a red carpet by People magazine how she feels now that the cat’s out of the bag, Seyfried said, “Relieved. Excited.”

“It’s important for me as an actor, an artist, I mean, a mom, of course, but as a person in the world who loves to work, to find things that I haven’t done before and to do things that scare me in a specific way,” Seyfried said. “And when you follow through with something that scares you and it comes out the other end that it’s something that’s having an impact, mostly positive impact, it always feels good because you take a risk.”

Seyfried participated in “You Can See Everything,” reprising her role as the disgraced Theranos founder in reenactments with Nathan Fielder, who directed the project with Lance Oppenheim. The film begins as a somewhat traditional documentary, as Fielder embeds with Holmes and her partner Billy Evans in the weeks before she reports to prison. But once she is behind bars, Fielder recruits Seyfried, who portrayed Holmes in the Hulu series “The Dropout,” to embody the biotech fraudster.

Seyfried was absent from the marketing of “You Can See Everything,” which took Hollywood by storm when it surprise premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. The three-hour documentary dominated the domestic box office, powering to $80 million after just four weekends, becoming the second-biggest doc ever in North America.