Billy Evans says he wasn’t fully on board with the plan to show, well, everything, in the hit documentary “You Can See Everything.”
Elizabeth Holmes’ partner is shown fully nude in the shower in Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s buzzy film that shows the Theranos founder and her family in the days before she goes to prison, but he told CBS Sunday Mornings’ Matt Gutman “I didn’t want it.”
“Did you know you were doing the full Monty?” Gutman asks.
“ I did not give consent to do that,” Evans claims. “Now, did I know they were filming me in the shower? Yes. But we would film 16 hours a day, all sorts of things were filmed with assurances made. I was just as surprised as the rest of the country to have my whole body on camera for the world to see.”
However, Evans’ recent remarks on the scene contradict how the filmmakers describe the process.
“We were in the car ride on the way back from the gym and I said to Billy, ‘We will give you some time to shower,’” co-director Oppenheim told GQ. “And Billy responded, ‘Want to film me showering?’ I offered to film him in a way that could avoid seeing his genitals, but Billy said he didn’t care about being seen naked.”
“It’s been an awkward experience and having your kids’ teachers see that. It’s really uncomfortable. I’m not proud of it. I didn’t want it,” Evans tells Gutman in the interview which airs Sunday.
Evans claims he asked the filmmakers to at least pixelate the shower scene. “It’s been weird seeing the commentary about, ‘he’s just showing the world.’ I’m a confident guy. I am not that confident.”
When Gutman asks if he contacted Fielder when he found out the scene would be included, Evans replies, “I communicated with them before the film came out. Both through lawyers and through myself. I was like, ‘Can you pixelate this?’ Is there anything you can do? Because I had heard rumors from people who’d seen the film in the early screenings. And, they refused to do so.”
Though Gutman tells Evans he has a “very nice figure,” Evans doubles down in the interview that “I’m, asking them and pleading to them not to show this. Apparently, it was something that Nathan and A24 really wanted to show the world, but it’s not something I did. And it’s embarrassing. I’d also say the color grading is like, way off.”
A24 had no comment.
