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How Amanda Seyfried found her (deep) voice as Elizabeth Holmes in 'The Dropout'

Amanda Seyfried is leaning into her computer's camera for an impromptu tutorial. When it was announced that she would be playing disgraced Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes in a new Hulu limited series, most of the focus was on whether she could convincingly mimic Holmes' famous deep baritone.

Los Angeles Times

Elizabeth Holmes' wild trial almost remade 'The Dropout.' Here's why it was left out

LOS ANGELES — Liz Meriwether, the creator of "New Girl" and "Single Parents," became fascinated with Elizabeth Holmes in 2019, much like the rest of us. She remembers being drawn in by a Vanity Fair piece that detailed the Silicon Valley wunderkind's final months at her biotech company, Theranos, which…

Los Angeles Times

Who is in The Dropout cast on Disney+ alongside Amanda Seyfried

Elizabeth Holmes' story is being told in a new eight-part miniseries

Manchester Evening News

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What's behind the obsession over whether Elizabeth Holmes intentionally lowered her voice?

There is a scene in Hulu’s new series, “The Dropout,” where Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, wearing a white blouse, stands in front of a mirror and practices saying, “This is an inspiring step forward.” With each iteration, her voice deepens.

The Conversation

‘The Dropout’ traces fraudster Elizabeth Holmes’ spectacular fall as Theranos founder

The fall of Theranos was almost as spectacular as the tech startup’s rise, but “The Dropout” is more concerned with how founder Elizabeth Holmes got there in the first place.

Tribune News Service

The Dropout review: Elizabeth Holmes drama lacks subtlety but is more viable than anything Theranos ever produced

Amanda Seyfried deftly conveys the brittleness of Holmes’s fake-it-till-you-make-it demeanour, but the series is slightly let down by foreshadowing, blunt symbolism

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes's sordid saga goes from trial to TV series

Hulu is presenting a limited TV series about fallen tech star Elizabeth Holmes just two months after she her conviction for duping investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos

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Halo, Moon Knight and more Bridgerton: what’s new to streaming in Australia in March

Plus a Tiger King dramatisation, a comedy musical about buying property in Australia and a Ben Affleck erotic thriller

The Guardian - AU

Elizabeth Holmes case: Bail tightened for Theranos fraudster as she awaits sentencing

The federal court judge set to sentence convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in September ordered Tuesday that she put up property worth $500,000 to help ensure she will not flee to avoid an expected multi-year prison sentence.

Tribune News Service

What to stream: New drama series retell Joe Exotic, Elizabeth Holmes stories

There’s an interesting content pipeline happening right now, as viral articles, podcasts and documentaries are turned into various series with movie stars stepping into these fictionalized adaptations of splashy true-life scandals. That trend reaches boiling point this spring, with several of these limited series dropping within a few months of…

Tribune News Service

The Dropout review: Elizabeth Holmes drama lacks subtlety but is more viable than anything Theranos ever produced

Amanda Seyfried deftly conveys the brittleness of Holmes’s fake-it-till-you-make-it demeanour, but the series is slightly let down by foreshadowing, blunt symbolism

The Independent UK

The Dropout: this true-crime story aims for Wolf of Wall Street energy – and misses

Amanda Seyfried is surprisingly passive as convicted con artist Elizabeth Holmes in an adaptation that’s not daring enough to be a thriller and can’t decide how camp it wants to be

The Guardian - UK

The Dropout review: Amanda Seyfried’s Elizabeth Holmes is pitiful, never pitiable

The moral of this Silicon Valley morality tale? Don’t run a company based on a cod-philosophical slogan printed on a paperweight

Evening Standard

'The Dropout' review: Elizabeth Holmes drama isn't as good as the true story

Amanda Seyfried's take on Elizabeth Holmes anchors this Theranos drama. Streaming soon on Hulu, 'The Dropout' often over-dramatizes the true story, much to its detriment.

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The Guardian - UK

The Dropout to Killing Eve: the seven best shows to stream this week

Amanda Seyfried stars in Disney+’s nuanced true-crime drama, while Jodie Comer returns as Villanelle for a final season of her electrifying chemistry with Sandra Oh’s Eve

The Guardian - UK

Bossing it: why the women of big tech are taking over the small screen

The Tech Bro has become Hollywood’s go-to villain. Now, TV is finally grappling with Silicon Valley’s complex female entrepreneurs

The Guardian - UK

What we learn from Anna Delvey: scams are all the rage for Generation Hustle

A wave of TV shows such as Inventing Anna are sympathetic portrayals of the con artist that lies within us all, says journalist Laura Martin

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'Inventing Anna's' greatest failure: It's as shallow as its subject

From "Fyre Fraud" to "The Tinder Swindler," con artists and their schemes have provided an endless font of material for television docuseries. No need to labor over fictional narratives about brazen frauds when reality has given us Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. But in the spirit of fixing something that's…

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Salon

Theranos' downfall in "Dropout" trailer

Hulu's limited series outlines Elizabeth Holmes' journey, from her entrepreneurial start to her eventual undoing

Mic

Amanda Seyfried is Elizabeth Holmes, voice-drop and all

The upcoming Hulu series ‘The Dropout’ promises to make the Theranos scandal a juicy prestige drama.

Evening Standard

Inventing Anna and the art of the con - why are we so obsessed with female scammers?

From Anna Delvey to Elizabeth Holmes, we’re appalled by female scammers - but secretly we lust after their freedom

Tribune News Service

Theranos trial: Legal experts agree Elizabeth Holmes is bound for prison, but for how long?

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes fraud conviction has raised two big questions: Will she go to prison? And if so, for how long?

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Holmes signals bid to get guilty verdicts tossed, possibly over jury issues

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has filed a motion indicating her legal team is looking for problems in the jury that convicted her in an attempt to get her guilty verdicts for fraud thrown out.

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