“I thought it was freakin’ insane and awesome,” Barker told Variety Thursday night at the Time100 Next Gala at Pier59 Studios . “I didn’t know much about [Elizabeth Holmes’] story going into it. I feel like I missed certain tiny things, but it was three hours long and I wished it was longer. That’s rare, you know?”
“You Can See Everything” blurs the line between narrative and documentary storytelling and, as Variety’s chief awards editor Clayton Davis puts it, has “turned the movie landscape topsy-turvy.” Much like Barker’s “Obsession,” the film has left the industry re-examining what kinds of movies resonate with Gen Z audiences — and, more importantly, what drives them out to the theaters.
“It felt new, fresh, different,” Barker said of “You Can See Everything.” “You almost can’t even call it a documentary, but it totally is. I’m just a huge fan of what [Fielder] is doing.”
Barker should have plenty more chances to cross paths with Fielder on the awards circuit, as both their films continue to earn recognition alongside some of the year’s most acclaimed films.
But one celebrity encounter in particular left Barker starstruck: Emma Watson.
“I was a huge ‘Harry Potter’ fan growing up, and I saw Emma Watson and I froze,” Barker recalled. “It’s so weird, I’m meeting all of these people that I really look up to, but there’s something different about when it’s someone from your childhood that really means a lot. That changes where you’re like, ‘Oh, woah.’ I was totally weird to her. I was trying to play it cool. But I did not play it cool.”
