Elizabeth Holmes's Partner Demanded a Percentage of the Film's Profits
Evans is Elizabeth Holmes's partner: she has said they are not legally married, though they got engaged in 2018 and have two children, and they seem to treat each other as spouses. He is not particularly famous, and his screen time competes with three well-known faces in what is essentially a four-character drama.
Then comes the meeting, where he demands a percentage of the film's profits — the sort of arrangement, the Guardian notes, that might be reserved for a promotional piece commissioned by a musician rather than a nonfiction film built around interviews with a notorious subject. Fielder and Oppenheim zero in on whether Holmes knew about the request and what became of it. What he gets, at least temporarily, is profit participation — which the paper casts as a violation of documentary norms.
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What makes the tech-bro label land, on the Guardian's account, is the template with the technology removed: paranoia, delusions of grandeur, lofty-sounding projects that never amount to anything, a seeming possessiveness toward his partner, and not even a modicum of demonstrated expertise — seemingly not even in his own imaginings.
Tech villain still feels like borrowed menace, though. The man is a not-particularly-famous partner in a four-character drama: there is no company to inspect and no product to distrust, which is somehow worse. The unsettling part is how little there is to check.