“Besides, I promised I wasn’t going to give myself a hard time and try to completely mimic this other human being. “I knew my voice was never going to be as deep as hers because I’m physically not capable of it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2022.
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For Seyfried, who plays Holmes in the new Hulu series The Dropout, tapping into Holmes’ voice was an important part of her story but she also knew there were obvious limitations when it came to mimicking it herself. These rare slip-ups led people in her circle and the media to question her authenticity-especially as the Theranos ruse was beginning to unravel in the 2010s. But on occasion, the medical entrepreneur slipped up and returned to her natural speaking voice, which happened to be more high-pitched. Holmes was known for her surprisingly deep voice in interviews, panels and discussions. Here's Where Elizabeth Holmes Is Now After Theranos & the Events of 'The Dropout'Įlizabeth Holmes' Net Worth Once Made Her a Billionaire-Here's How Much She Makes NowĮlizabeth Holmes Is Accused of 'Brainwashing' Her Husband-Here's What His Family Really Thinks of Her There were things about Holmes herself that were entirely made up, including, of course, her infamous voice.
But this technology was an empty promise-and it seems that wasn’t the only thing fake about this company. With Theranos, Holmes boasted a revolutionary technology that was capable of diagnosing a number of diseases, including cancer, with just a prick of blood. The Dropout, which stars Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes, tells the story of the former Theranos CEO’s meteoric rise-and equally intense fall from grace-after she is accused of defrauding medical professionals and companies out of millions. That I was making different choices for a different kind of show.Ever since The Dropout landed on Hulu, audiences have had lots of questions about Elizabeth Holmes’ voice-especially when it comes to actress Amanda Seyfried’s impression of the Theranos founder. I think I could just watch it and laugh because I was confident in my own relationship with the character. Luckily, they didn’t have any negative impacts. But you take all those things that make the iconic pieces of Elizabeth Holmes and you have to throw them away for a minute because you can add those back into a fully formed human being. I didn’t search for it after I was cast, and I definitely didn’t really remember it. “I mean, I actually don’t remember seeing it before the show was even formed for me. “When you think about the turtleneck, the lips, the voice, the messy hair - that’s how you clothe yourself in Elizabeth Holmes if you’re going to play her on ‘SNL,'” said Seyfried, who actually took over the role of Holmes in “The Dropout” from “SNL” star Kate McKinnon, who departed it last February before production began. Seyfried too was concerned about not turning her performance into a parody, which she specifically avoided by not watching “SNL” sketches of Holmes impersonations, most famously done by cast member Chloe Fineman. And you never get taken out of the story, which I was sort of worried that - there’s so much emphasis on her voice in the public imagination, I was worried that that was going to take the audience out of the story.”
“And so what was incredible, what Amanda did was that she kept herself and she kept the emotional reality going while transforming into this character, that I think just made it feel real. “I didn’t want it to be at all a sketch or a satire,” Meriwether told reporters. “The Dropout” showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether (“New Girl”) said during the panel she was “really blown away” by Seyfried’s version of Holmes’ voice and her performance in one installment of the eight-episode show that is devoted to how Holmes’ voice got there over time. But at the end of the day, I’m an actor and I’m not her and I did my best to try to capture the oddness of it.” “So I am a little worried about what people are going to say about the voice. “And that was really my only concern,” “The Dropout” star said.
Seyfried says she practiced “different breathing and tricks,” and though she doesn’t think she “nailed it 100%” in the end, she does believe she did “what I needed to do for the audience to to come with us.”
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