Viewers assumed the graphic nudity in Elizabeth Holmes' new documentary belonged to her, but the truth is something nobody expected.
The Elizabeth Holmes documentary nude scene that earned You Can See Everything its R rating does not show Holmes at all. It shows her partner, Billy Evans, fully nude in a shower during the film's first 40 minutes, a moment co-director Lance Oppenheim says happened almost by accident at their home sometime during filming that began 34 days before Holmes reported to federal prison.
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How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary nude scene actually came together
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The scene unfolds after Evans finishes a workout at the gym. He comes home and steps into the shower, and the camera stays on him, capturing a full-frontal shot while he washes up and brushes his teeth. There's nothing hidden or implied about it. It's direct, plain, and unmistakably him, according to multiple outlets that reviewed the film.
Oppenheim says the moment wasn't planned as some kind of shock tactic. He told Variety that during the car ride home from the gym, he mentioned to Evans that the crew would give him privacy to shower. Evans responded with a question of his own: "Want to film me showering?" Oppenheim said he offered an alternative, framing the shot so Evans's genitals wouldn't be visible, but Evans brushed that off, saying he simply didn't care about being seen naked.
A separate account reported by People and Entertainment Weekly says Evans stripped down and got into the shower before Oppenheim even had a chance to pitch the more modest framing. Either way, the outcome was the same: an unguarded, matter-of-fact nude scene that ended up defining the film's rating and, for a while, its biggest talking point online.
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Why You Can See Everything received its R rating
The Motion Picture Association rated the documentary R, citing "language and some graphic nudity," according to a report from the Washington Times published in late September. At the time the rating came out, A24 reportedly hadn't revealed whose body appeared on screen, which left plenty of room for guessing.
That guessing game got messy fast. Online chatter speculated the nude subject could be Holmes herself, or even Nathan Fielder, the comedian who co-directed the film. It wasn't until later reporting and interviews with Oppenheim that the record got set straight. The person shown nude is Evans, not Holmes, and not Fielder.
Once that detail became public, the conversation shifted. Instead of questioning whether someone had been filmed without consent, coverage focused on the strange, almost casual way the scene came together, and what it says about how much access Holmes and Evans gave the filmmakers in the first place.
The unusual access that made the scene possible
Holmes and Evans invited Fielder and Oppenheim into their daily lives in the weeks before Holmes began serving her 11-year sentence for defrauding Theranos investors. The filmmakers ended up following the couple for roughly three years, capturing everything from quiet domestic routines to conversations about Holmes's looming prison term, according to reporting from The Atlantic and Entrepreneur.
That level of openness is rare for documentary subjects, especially ones facing the kind of public scrutiny Holmes has dealt with since Theranos collapsed. The shower scene is really just one extreme example of how far that access went. Nobody scripted it. Nobody staged it for effect. Evans made a spur-of-the-moment call, and the cameras kept rolling.
What the film reveals about Holmes and Evans beyond the nude scene
Much of You Can See Everything centers on conversations between Holmes and Evans about a possible new blood-testing venture, something several outlets have nicknamed "Theranos 2.0." Evans is connected to Haemanthus, an Austin-based startup that says it's working on laser-based technology to detect disease using blood, saliva, and urine samples.
Fortune reported that interest in Haemanthus spiked after the documentary's October 16 release, but the company's claims haven't been independently verified. Reporting describes patents and investors tied to the startup, but no finished, publicly demonstrated product, and at least one report noted the company currently has no chief technology officer. None of that technical uncertainty is connected to the nude scene itself, but it has become part of the broader story surrounding the film and the people in it.
Going forward, the attention seems likely to stay split between two things: curiosity about the documentary's rawest moment, and skepticism about whether Evans's business plans will amount to anything real. So far, there's no confirmed timeline for Haemanthus to launch a working product, and no additional legal or regulatory developments tied directly to the film's release.
