Thousands descend on California park for Elizabeth Holmes lookalike tournament

Big crowds attended a bizarre lookalike competition in San Francisco on Saturday, where contestants attempted to channel convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and comedian filmmaker Nathan Fielder.The unusual gathering took over Lafayette Park, drawing crowds eager to watch people impersonate the stars of the A24 film “You Can See Everything”.More than 1,000 people RSVP’d to the competition on Partiful.

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We did not expect anything like this.It’s amazing,” the co–host of the event Miranda Stern told KRON4.Those hoping to take home the crown arrived wearing black turtlenecks, headphones and tightly pulled-back hairstyles, while others carried laptops, delivered painfully awkward remarks or attempted to replicate Holmes’ famously intense stare.

One contestant even tossed fake $100 bills into the crowd.For many attendees, the event was an opportunity to celebrate a documentary they couldn’t stop talking about.“It was funny.It was insane.

It was like a rollercoaster, up and down.You never knew what was going to happen next,” Shane Boile told KRON4.“Honestly, one of my top favorite movies I have seen in a while,” Emily Willlams told KRON4.

The competition was organized following the release of the A24 film directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.The film centers on Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, whose promise to revolutionize blood testing turned her into one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious figures.Throughout Fielder, interviews Holmes, with his deadpan, absurdist style of humor.

Theranos claimed its technology could perform hundreds of medical tests using just a few drops o...