{"id":573661,"date":"2023-05-09T01:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/elizabeth-holmes-claims-amanda-seyfried-was-playing-a-character-i-created-in-the-dropout\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T22:20:14","slug":"elizabeth-holmes-claims-amanda-seyfried-was-playing-a-character-i-created-in-the-dropout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elizabeth-holmes-claims-amanda-seyfried-was-playing-a-character-i-created-in-the-dropout\/","title":{"rendered":"#Elizabeth Holmes Claims Amanda Seyfried Was \u201cPlaying a Character I Created\u201d in \u2018The Dropout\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Elizabeth Holmes said Amanda Seyfried isn\u2019t really playing her in The Dropout<\/em>, but rather a \u201ccharacter\u201d she created.<\/p>\n

\n The disgraced Theranos CEO, who was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, became known for her look and voice, which consisted of red lipstick, a black turtleneck and a distinctive way of speaking \u2014 deep and hollow.<\/p>\n

\n During a new interview with The New York Times<\/a><\/em> published online Sunday, Holmes unveiled what the news<\/a>paper called her \u201cnew persona,\u201d Liz Holmes, who is described as speaking with a soft, \u201cunremarkable voice\u201d and blending in with other mothers.<\/p>\n

\n When talking with the Times <\/em>about actresses who have or were set to portray her in projects, including Seyfried in Hulu\u00a0miniseries<\/a>\u00a0The Dropout<\/em> or Jennifer Lawrence, who was slated to play the CEO in Adam McKay\u2019s\u00a0Bad Blood<\/em> before departing the film, Holmes said, \u201cThey\u2019re not playing me. They\u2019re playing a character I created.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Seyfried also went on to win an Emmy Award for her role in the limited series.<\/p>\n

\n Holmes, who founded Theranos at 19, explained that she created the distinguished persona because \u201cI believed it would be how I would be good at business and taken seriously and not taken as a little girl or a girl who didn\u2019t have good technical ideas. \u2026 Maybe people picked up on that not being authentic, since it wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n In 2022, a federal judge sentenced Holmes to more than 11 years in prison for duping investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing, but the technology<\/a> never actually worked.<\/p>\n

\n During the company\u2019s 15-year history, Holmes was at the center of a scheme to tout Theranos\u2019 blood-testing system as a breakthrough in health care \u2013 a medical device that the company claimed could detect a multitude of diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood. The technology helped Theranos raise nearly $1 billion from investors, and Holmes became the world\u2019s youngest self-made female billionaire at the time with a $4.5 billion fortune, based on her 50 percent stake in Theranos.<\/p>\n

\n But after The Wall Street Journal <\/em>published an investigation into Theranos in 2015, questioning if the technology really worked, everything came crashing down and ultimately led to Holmes\u2019 conviction.<\/p>\n

\n The <\/em>Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n