The actress is opening up about her experience visiting two of Elizabeth Holmes' residences while the Theranos founder was in prison.
This article contains spoilers for “You Can See Everything.”
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary “You Can See Everything” gives viewers an unprecedented look into the home life of Elizabeth Holmes.
The disgraced Theranos founder invited the filmmakers to document the 34 days before she reported to the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, TX, on May 30, 2023. Two years later, the A24 production team would pick up cameras again, joining Holmes’ partner, Billy Evans, and the couple’s two young children at their home in Austin, TX.
In a surprise twist to viewers, Amanda Seyfried, who portrayed Holmes in the Hulu miniseries “The Dropout,” becomes an important part of the narrative in the second half of the documentary.
The actress opened up about the experience in a Rolling Stone interview with Fielder and Oppenheim, and described what it was really like to enter the family’s Texas home while Holmes was away in prison.
Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, invited Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim to document the days leading up to the disgraced Theranos founder reporting to prison. (A24 Films) 
The beginning of the documentary gives an intimate look at their life in a beach rental near San Diego. (A24 Films) 
Amanda Seyfried, who joined the project two years later, has opened up about the "crazy" experience of being in Holmes' personal home while she was in prison. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) Seyfried—who had been shown footage Fielder and Oppenheim captured in the days leading up to Holmes reporting to prison—explained that she had some preconceived notions about Evans.
She chose to put those feelings aside before visiting the home—a four-bedroom, three-bathroom luxury residence that’s currently on the market for $2.25 million with Amy Deane of Moreland Properties.
“I wanted to turn my disdain off a little bit, because I’m in his house now with his children—with their children,” she emphasized. “I always want to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I felt bad that I had talked a bunch of sh-t about him up until that point.”
The “Mamma Mia!” star noted that although she didn’t particularly “like” Evans, she was careful with her words because she was “coming into this man’s house.”
She explained that “trying to engage with Billy” was “going fine” until he received an unexpected call from Holmes.
The Del Mar beach home is in an ultraexclusive community of just about a dozen houses. (Google Earth) “That was just ... what an experience for somebody to have, to say the least,” she reflected, adding that everything she felt was plainly visible on her face in that scene.
“We didn’t know she was gonna call right then. I am sitting there with her children and cuddling with her dog! While she’s in prison!” the star recalled.
Later, the documentary would show Fielder, Seyfried, and Evans having dinner together—a moment that grew tense quickly, due to a stark difference in political opinions between Seyfried and Evans.
“I don’t want to provoke him, but at this point, it’s kind of like, the gloves are off,” she recalled. “I was in the frame of mind where I’m like, ‘OK, this guy is disrespectful, and I’m here in his home, I’m gonna argue this because I actually have a pretty solid stance on things.’”
Seyfried revealed that the dynamic was difficult to balance, as she was torn between being “protective” of herself and “trying to set the record straight,” but she was also hoping to maintain “some kind of rapport” with Evans, so filming could resume in the home without the entire production crew getting kicked out.
The documentary eventually leverages Seyfried’s acting skills—and unique knowledge of the source material—to create a series of reenactments to key the audience into moments that happened before cameras picked up.
The Texas home Evans and the couple's children moved into is seen in the second half of the documentary. It is currently on the market for $2.25 million. (Realtor.com) 
Seyfried recalled a tense moment in the home's kitchen with Evans. (Realtor.com) These reenactments would take Seyfried and the crew to the ultraprivate Del Mar, CA, beach home Holmes had rented in the weeks leading up to her prison stay.
In the Rolling Stone interview, Fielder remarked that Seyfried had been very “curious” about the objects that were found on the re-creation sets, and wanted to learn which items were placed by the production design team and which had existed in the home when Holmes lived there two years earlier.
“I was just grasping at anything that could ground me back into this world, because it had been so long, and I think I was also experiencing some kind of weird, like, meta-vortex, because I had just seen Elizabeth Holmes in this house, and the house is so specific,” Seyfried explained.
The four-bedroom, four-bathroom home certainly is specific, and became an instantly recognizable location from the moment the “You Can See Everything” trailer dropped. It’s one of just about a dozen residences in the ultraexclusive community called Sandy Lane, about a half-hour from San Diego.
The single-story home was built in 1948 and includes direct access to a private beach. It features tall ceilings, exposed beams, and sizable windows that connect the moody space to its serene surroundings.
The actress said it was “just crazy” to be in the “same place” she had seen Holmes in, through footage Fielder and his team had previously captured.
“Nobody had been in Holmes and Evans’ beach house for two years, or whatever,” she said. “And suddenly, it’s like I’ve time-traveled two years into the past.”