Elizabeth Holmes is in her “court era,” as the kids would say, and she’s spending some of her time on the outside trying to get people to know the “real her.” The rehabilitation of her image included a profile with The New York Times from May 7, where the interviewer followed her life as a wife to financier Billy Evans and their two children. When the interviewer inquired about Amanda Seyfried’s performance in “The Dropout” and Jennifer Lawrence’s potential role, Holmes shared her mixed reaction.
“They’re not playing me. They’re playing a character I created,” she answered. “I 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’t have technical ideas. Many people picked up on that not being authentic since it wasn’t.”
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Of course, the former Theranos CEO is referencing the persona she became famous (and later infamous) for, including her purposefully deepened voice and Steve-Jobs-inspired black turtleneck. The author of the NYT profile noted that the current iteration of Holmes uses “a soft, slightly low, but totally unremarkable voice,” not the tone of her false persona.
