Billy Evans has spoken out against a full-frontal shower scene in the documentary “You Can See Everything,” claiming he never consented to the final edit despite being filmed during marathon shooting days.
Evans, 31, the husband of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, 41, said’ Matt Gutman that he was blindsided when the A24 film hit theaters showing his entire body on camera. The documentary, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, followed Holmes and Evans in their home during her final month of freedom before she began an 11-year federal prison sentence for investor fraud. It was released in the US last month and in the UK earlier this month.
“Did I know they were filming me in the shower, yes. But we would film 16 hours a day, like all sorts of things were filmed with assurances made,” Evans said in the interview. “I was just as surprised as the rest of the country to have my whole body on camera for the world to see.”
The scene became a talking point after Oppenheim previously described Evans as seeming eager to be filmed. The director told GQ that while riding back from the gym, he had offered Evans time to shower alone. Oppenheim claimed Evans responded by asking, “Want to film me showering?” and when the director offered to shoot in a way that would avoid showing genitals, Oppenheim said Evans told him “he didn’t care about being seen naked.”
Evans pushed back hard on that characterization. “The recollections are pretty different on that,” he said. “I did not give consent.”
The fallout has been deeply personal for Evans, who shares two young children with Holmes. He described knowing that his kids’ teachers have seen the footage as an “awkward experience” and emphasized his discomfort with commentary suggesting he sought the attention. “Oh, he’s just showing the world,” he said, citing remarks he’s encountered. Evans added that while he’s a “confident guy,” he’s “not that confident.”
The commentary around the scene has been “weird” to witness, he noted. “It’s really uncomfortable. I’m not proud of it. I didn’t want it.”
Before the film’s public release, Evans said he took steps to try to have the footage altered. He communicated with the filmmakers both directly and through lawyers, asking them to “pixelate” the scene. “Because I’d heard rumors from people who’d seen the film in the early screenings,” he explained. His requests were denied. “They refused to do so,” Evans said.
He framed the refusal as evidence against the narrative that he wanted the exposure. “The irony behind that is people say, clearly Billy wanted the world to see this. I very much did not,” Evans continued. “To the point in which I’m asking them, and like, pleading to them not to show this before the film became public in theaters.”
Evans concluded with a pointed assessment of where responsibility lies. “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.”
Even in his frustration, Evans managed a wry aside about the film’s technical qualities. “I’d also say the color grading is, like, way off,” he added.
Holmes began her prison sentence in May 2023 at a federal facility in Bryan, Texas, after being convicted on multiple counts of wire fraud and conspiracy related to her now-defunct blood-testing company Theranos. The documentary captures the couple’s domestic life in the weeks before that surrender, with cameras granted extensive access to their home. The full-frontal shot of Evans in the shower became one of the project’s most discussed moments upon release.
Evans’ public statements mark a significant break from his earlier cooperation with the project, which saw him and Holmes welcoming the film crew into their private space during an extraordinarily stressful period.