Saturday saw a horde of Elizabeth Holmes converge on San Francisco’s Lafayette Park alongside a few hundred spectators for a lookalike competition inspired by A24’s new meta-documentary mega-hit. You can see everything. A plastic surgery resident from Stanford University took home top honors.
As the Chronicle reports, about two dozen potential Elizabeth Holmeses battled it out in a competition hosted by a handful of twenty-something SF residents.
Inspired by the turnout at a New York edition held last month, organizers say a Partiful listing for the lookalike contest received 1,000 RSVPS almost as soon as it went live.
The event also saw a competition held for the best Nathan Fielder lookalike, ensuring You can see everythingThe on-screen co-director of was not absent from the afternoon festivities.
Incredibly, the organizers managed to find a perfect sponsor for the whole affair: Think Jerky, the Texas jerky brand that makes a memorable appearance at the end of the film once Holmes shows up at prison.
“Jerky is everything,” Kristyn Braden told the Chronicle.
Ultimately, Sierra Stingl, a plastic surgery resident at Stanford University, was selected as the candidate who most resembled the disgraced founder of Theranos. Surprisingly, according to the Chronicle, Stingl, 30, also received funding from Stanford to develop a medical device.
“It’s a little concerning, given my background,” Stingl told the Chronicle of his victory.
In remarks captured by KRON4, organizer and co-host Tanvi Kaur celebrated the event as being the good kind of weird.
“Historically, SF has been a place of weird people, creative energy and a lot of really cool ideas,” Kaur said. “I feel like we’re losing a little bit of that spark, so our whole mission is to bring that fun and that boldness back to the city. I think we need more boldness.”
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