Its directors are already hotly tipped for Oscar glory after setting out to discover whether Elizabeth Holmes has created yet another persona for the cameras, one that’s far more demure and fragile than the infamous deep-voice, turtleneck-wearing persona she is most famous for.
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But there’s another question hanging over the disgraced Theranos founder’s latest close-up: Has she also managed to win over the person telling her story?
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Sources familiar with the production tell Page Six that director Nathan Fielder appeared to develop more than a passing fondness for Holmes during filming — a dynamic they believe may help explain why her longtime partner, Billy Evans, emerges in a less-than-flattering light.
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“I think Nathan fell in love with Lizzie,” said well-placed movie source, “I think he totally fell for her.”
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“Nathan knows how he feels about Elizabeth.
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Whether he shares his feelings in public is yet to be seen,” added another source close to the production.
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Indeed, in one of the film’s final intimate moments, Fielder is seen swimming in the ocean with Holmes, who lures him into the water.
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The documentary was filmed shortly before Holmes went to start her 11-year prison sentence for fraud related to blood test company Theranos, the “revolutionary” company she founded which raised a valuation of $9 billion, before being exposed as a con.
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Fielder, 43, was most recently linked to best-selling author Emma Cline, whom he accompanied to Cultured magazine’s Cult100 Gala at the Guggenheim Museum in April.
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This week, however, gossip site DeuxMoi alleged the couple had split.
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Fielder did not respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
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Fielder and his co-director, Lance Oppenheim, moved into the small rental home in Del Mar, Calif., that Holmes, 42, and Evans, 34, shared with their two young children, William, now 5, and Invicta, now 3, for 34 days leading up to Holmes’ surrender to prison in May 2023.
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As Holmes prepared to begin her 11-year prison sentence, Page Six can reveal taht she was undergoing IVF treatment.
“The goal was to be able to have another child when she was out,” said a source in the know.
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There are also moments where he’s seen as controlling; wrestling a bowl away from Holmes as she tries to inexpertly whisk eggs.
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The couple were not given edit approval.
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Before the film’s release, Evans, who refers to Holmes as his ‘wife’ despite the couple not being legally married, told the “All-In Podcast”, “I haven’t seen it.
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I might think this is the dumbest thing I have ever done.”
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“As filming was kicking off, Elizabeth and Billy had just welcomed their daughter, their son hadn’t turned two yet, and Elizabeth was preparing to begin [her] prison sentence,” said the source close to production.
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“And on top of that, they had invited the crew to all but move in with them.”
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“I wanted our kids to be more like her than me, that’s when I knew,” Evans told the podcast of starting a family with Holmes.
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He has an enormous heart, and he
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Evans also defended his decision to stand by Holmes, saying he wanted people to see the person he knew rather than the disgraced businesswoman portrayed in the headlines.
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“I have gone through this consistent experience with the people who love me most, from my grandmother to my best friends,” he said.
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“They’d hear I knew [Elizabeth Holmes] or I was falling for this person and now we’re going to have a kid…
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in the beginning, every single one of these people thought I was crazy.”
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He recalled telling them: “‘Do you know who she is?’
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I would ask them, ‘I understand why you feel that way but just meet her.’
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And they would meet her and spend time with her and see her in a totally natural environment, like going on a hike or helping a friend.
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Every opinion of her would radically shift.”
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In January 2022, a federal jury found Holmes guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of wire fraud involving more than $140 million in investor funds.
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She was acquitted of charges related to defrauding patients.
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Holmes and her former boyfriend and Theranos COO, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, falsely claimed that the company’s proprietary “Edison” machine could run hundreds of comprehensive medical tests using just a few drops of blood from a finger prick.
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In reality, the technology did not work as advertised, and the company secretly relied on conventional commercial blood analyzers.
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Reports say Holmes is expected to transfer to a halfway house next August, with her full release scheduled for February 2030.
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Those close to her hope she could actually be released to home confinement even earlier next year.
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“They knew they had no control over how any particular moment would end up playing out on film,” said the production source of Holmes and Evans.
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“And there were definitely some tense moments and points where they were uncomfortable.
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But that’s also real life.”
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Following a screening earlier this month, he claimed that Evans, the scion of a wealthy hospitality group, “started trying to exert a level of control over the process that made it very hard to engage with him, and it was uncomfortable for us and [production company] A24.
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“We sort of had to stop,” he added.
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…and 34 more, not listed.
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