SAN JOSE, Calif. — As the buzz continues to grow around the Elizabeth Holmes documentary, “You Can See Everything,” the filmmakers revealed at a special screening Tuesday night that neither she, nor her partner, Billy Evans, have seen the movie.

That revelation may come as a surprise, given that the disgraced Theranos fraudster and the hotel heir are the subjects of the movie. They also invited the directors, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, into their home to offer an intimate view of their lives in the month before she had to report to prison in May 2023.

But during a Q&A at the Los Angeles screening, Oppenheim said, “Neither of them have seen the film,” according to The Hollywood Reporter and People. Oppenheim pointed out one obvious issue: “Elizabeth is still incarcerated.” But he also said, “Billy hasn’t seen it.”

Oppenheim and Fielder explained that things got tense between them and the couple after Holmes began serving her 11-year prison sentence and they were trying to finish the movie. The relationship became especially strained with Evans, Fielder said.

Evans “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 also A24 and everyone,” Fielder said.

“And I think we sort of had to stop — I think communication broke down basically, and we’ve been in that state for a little bit,” Fielder added. “So it’s been challenging in that way.”

The day before the Los Angeles screening, someone from Holmes’ side posted a comment about the documentary on her X account. “I really don’t think you are ready for this doc,” it said.

While in a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, Holmes is barred from using social media. But she issued a statement in September through her X account that said that Evans and others are authorized to post messages on her behalf. In that statement, she also said she would never stop “fighting to prove my innocence.”

The nearly three-hour documentary will be released it theaters Oct. 16. It premiered to rave reviews at the Telluride Film Festival and is one of the most talked-out films of the fall movie season.

It follows Fielder as he and a film crew move into a guesthouse on the San Diego beachfront property where Holmes, Evans and their two young children stayed in the month before she reported to prison.

The year before, a federal jury in San Jose found the Stanford dropout and one-time Silicon Valley wunderkind guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy for bilking investors in her defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup of hundreds of millions of dollars.

As Holmes prepared to report to prison, she reached out to the film studio A24 about letting someone document her life. Oppenheim and Fielder have said at previous screenings that Holmes was looking to clear her name. She and Evans apparently thought that the best way to do that would be to invite a film crew into their home and offer them full transparency.

But the couple may have not gotten what they were looking for. According to trailers of the film and early reviews, the film features long, intense conversations between Holmes and Fielder, or between Evans and Fielder, with Fielder asking them difficult questions about their life choices and looking incredulous at some of their responses. One critic said the documentary portrays Evans as an “aggro control freak” with “a dark side.”

During Tuesday night’s Q&A, Fielder, a comedian known for a brand of cringe comedy that blurs the line between fiction and reality, said he never expected to be on-camera. But Oppenheim said Holmes and Evans “kept kind of pulling him in until it felt suddenly like oh, the only way to actually make this is to have someone kind of confront their delusions in certain aspects.”

The filmmakers also felt abnormally anxious through the whole experience, Oppenheim explained, according to People. After the crew moved into the couple’s guest house, they grew concerned that the space might have hidden surveillance devices. Ultimately, they ordered a device to try to debug the guest house.

“We were in a conspiracy thriller of our own, we all were paranoid,” Oppenheim said of living in Holmes’ world, according to People. Fielder added, “I still am not sure to this day like what I experienced.”

That sense of anxiety appears to pervade Fielder’s conversations with Holmes. One trailer shows a moment when Fielder pointedly asks Holmes: “You really feel you did nothing wrong?”

“I did not,” Holmes answers.

In another scene, Fielder stares at Holmes as she tells him, “I’m not that person, I can promise you that.”

“You’re being real right now?” Fielder asks, sounding less than convinced.

“I’m always being real,” Holmes says.

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