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“You Can See Everything” would have felt and looked very different without the help of Emma Stone.
In a new interview with Vulture, director Lance Oppenheim said that getting (damage) Amanda Seyfried involved in the film would not have happened without Stone. At a little more than halfway through the film, Nathan Fielder heads to Seyfried’s home to show footage of his month spent living with Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her husband Billy. Things take a very uncomfortable turn when Seyfried manages to watch clips of Holmes watching “The Dropout” – the Hulu show where Seyfried played the founder of Theranos during her rise and fall. All of that and what came after was largely due to Stone.
At the end of the film, the two-time Academy Award winner was mentioned in the Special Thanks section of the credits. At first, most believed that the help came because the actress and Fielder were friends and had previously worked together on the Showtime television series “The Curse”. Oppenheim revealed that she helped set up the introduction between the filmmakers and Seyfried.
Oppenheim said at first that all he was hoping for was to show Seyfried the pictures they shot and hope that her response would lead to a “deeper understanding of what we did.” That changed when the star of “The Dropout” admitted that he wanted to play Holmes again. From then on, the back half of the film becomes more like Fielder’s HBO series “The Rehearsal” as Seyfried plays Holmes in several iterations after the real woman is put behind bars.
“As soon as Elizabeth leaves, the film is haunted by her absence,” Oppenheim said. “Everyone in her is trying to remember her in different ways and also create a version of her.”
So if your favorite part of the movie is Seyfried’s acting, her retorts, or her reactions to Billy, go ahead and thank Stone.
