A never-before-seen two-hour Elizabeth Holmes interview shot during the during the height of her success as the founder of Theranos could be released.
Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) says he’s sitting on a couple of hours of footage with Holmes that he’d like to put out.
“What’s really not known about any of this is, yes, I did all the advertising for Theranos,” Morris told Variety. “But I did it at a time when Elizabeth Holmes was on the front cover of Forbes and many other magazines. She was riding high, and this was before everything collapsed. Did I have any reason to believe that she was a fraud? I did not. Did that change as time went on? It did.”
Continued Morris: “I asked her, at a certain point, if I could film an interview with her — and this is at the height of her success. I did film a two-hour interview with her, which is not very well-known — if it is known at all. And I just watched that … People have never seen my long interview.”
Morris added that he previously tried to do a documentary about Holmes but couldn’t get it off the ground due to litigation and Holmes’ indictment.
He’s interested in releasing an unedited version of the interview, which he suggests would provide a contrast with the prison-bound version of Holmes seen in A24’s hit film You Can See Everything. “It [would give] you a comparison of Elizabeth before and Elizabeth after, which I think is interesting in and of itself,” he said, noting that his impression was that Holmes truly believed in what she was doing.
A24’s You Can See Everything has earned an incredible $45 million domestically after just 10 days in theaters and expanded from 855 theaters to 2,655 theaters for its second week. There’s some speculation that the documentary might even hit the coveted $100 million mark, which is all the more impressive given the film’s three-hour run time.
