Emma Stone Secretly Brought Amanda Seyfried Into You Can See Everything

By Nico Grey · Published Oct 21, 2026, 6:19 PM (BKK)

Emma Stone isn’t in “You Can See Everything,” but the documentary’s biggest twist only happened because of her. Co-director Lance Oppenheim told Vulture that he and Nathan Fielder “had been struggling to get anyone else in Holmes’s orbit on-camera when Emma Stone, a close friend of Fielder’s, connected him with Amanda Seyfried.” That introduction turned into the whole second half of the film. Stone, 37, gets a “special thanks” in the end credits, TheWrap and Just Jared point out, and now we know why. Spoiler warning: this story explains Seyfried’s part in the film.

The reveal: the original interview and the reports

Vulture published the interview with co-director Lance Oppenheim on October 19. Entertainment Weekly and People picked up the Emma Stone detail the next day, and Deadline has the box office.

From one introduction to the second half of the movie

Vulture’s interview lays out the chain step by step. Here it is in order:

• Stone connects them. Fielder and Oppenheim had spent a month filming Holmes at home in Del Mar, California, but couldn’t get anyone else from her world on camera. Stone put Fielder in touch with Seyfried, who played Holmes in Hulu’s “The Dropout.”
• A careful Zoom call. Fielder told Seyfried only that they’d been working in secret on a project with extensive access to Holmes, and asked if they could show her the footage and film her reaction.
• “Punked”? She said yes. But Oppenheim recalls that, as a fan of Fielder’s work, she was wary of getting “punked.” Fair enough, from the man who made “Nathan for You.”
• The laptop. The moment they met in person, they handed her a laptop with their Del Mar footage and started filming, hoping her reaction might give them “a deeper understanding of what we’d made.”
• The urge to play her again. Seyfried then said she wanted to play Holmes again, and Vulture says that’s when “the next phase of the documentary began to take shape.”

TheWrap places her arrival a little past the halfway point, when Fielder visits her home to show her clips, including Holmes watching “The Dropout.” From there, Seyfried plays Holmes in reenactments of moments no camera could capture, like Fielder’s prison visits, which had to be rebuilt from his memory. Oppenheim told Vulture that Fielder would call him straight after each visit with a “moment-by-moment play-by-play” so he could write it all down.

What’s confirmed, and what isn’t

Confirmed: Stone made the connection between Fielder and Seyfried, according to Oppenheim in Vulture, and she’s thanked in the credits. She and Fielder are close friends who worked together on the 2023 Showtime series “The Curse.”

Not confirmed: how and when she made the introduction. Just Jared suggests Fielder may have told her about the project while they were promoting “The Curse” in late 2023, but that’s the outlet’s reading, not a quote. Stone hasn’t spoken publicly about her part, and we don’t know whether she has seen the finished film. If she talks about it, we’ll update this page.

Why it had to be Emma

Here’s our take. “The Curse” put Stone and Fielder side by side as Whitney and Asher Siegel, a married couple making a home-flipping TV show, in a series Fielder created with Benny Safdie. Just Jared notes it earned her a Golden Globe nomination. She clearly trusts his strange, uncomfortable style, and Seyfried was clearly nervous about it. When a stranger messages you about a secret Elizabeth Holmes project, a name you trust can make all the difference.

It also fits how Stone picks her work. She keeps saying yes to the weirdest projects in town, from Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” which won her a second Best Actress Oscar, to “Kinds of Kindness” and “Bugonia.” She also produces: she was at the 2024 New York Film Festival as a producer on “A Real Pain.” Quietly opening a door for a friend’s riskiest film is very her.

Without the intro, there’s no Oscar push

Seyfried’s part is now the center of A24’s awards plan. As we reported in our story on her Oscar push, Variety says A24 will campaign her for Best Supporting Actress. If she’s nominated, she would be the first actor ever nominated for a documentary performance, Deadline points out. Just Jared adds, citing Variety, that Christopher Abbott, who plays Holmes’ partner Billy Evans in the reenactments, will be eligible for Best Supporting Actor, and that A24 is pushing the film in eight more categories, from Best Director to Best Sound. None of that happens unless Stone puts Fielder and Seyfried in touch.

Where to watch You Can See Everything

It’s in U.S. theaters now, and this weekend is the big one. According to Deadline, the film opened to $15.6 million, won Monday’s box office with $2.57 million, and had made $18.1 million in North America by October 19. It goes wide on Friday, October 23, in at least 2,600 theaters, and Deadline thinks it could come close to “Clayface” at the box office. It runs 2 hours and 54 minutes. Seyfried shows up in the second half, so stay in your seat.

FAQ

What did Emma Stone do on You Can See Everything?

She connected Nathan Fielder with Amanda Seyfried, co-director Lance Oppenheim told Vulture. Seyfried’s involvement became the film’s second half, and Stone is thanked in the credits for it. She doesn’t appear on screen.

Why was Amanda Seyfried nervous about joining?

Oppenheim told Vulture that, as a fan of Fielder’s past work, she was wary of getting “punked” when he reached out about a secret project with access to Elizabeth Holmes.

How do Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder know each other?

They are close friends and co-starred as Whitney and Asher Siegel in “The Curse,” the 2023 Showtime series Fielder created with Benny Safdie.

When does You Can See Everything expand to more theaters?

On Friday, October 23, when it goes wide in at least 2,600 U.S. theaters, according to Deadline.

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Photos: Emma Stone at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival (card and story graphic) by Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Amanda Seyfried at Miu Miu Women’s Tales, 83rd Venice International Film Festival, 2026 (card and story graphic) by Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0; Emma Stone at the 2025 Venice Film Festival by Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0; Emma Stone at the 2024 New York Film Festival by Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0; Nathan Fielder in Vancouver, 2017 by Northwest, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons). Archive photos, not from the events described.

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