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How Much Sympathy Does Amanda Seyfried Have for Elizabeth Holmes After Portraying Her on ‘The Drop Out’? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan seacrest. I met as I
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Speaker 1: Free portrays Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu show That Drop
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Speaker 1: Out about the true rise and Dramatic fall, the founder
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Speaker 1: of Paras who went from running a billion dollar business
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Speaker 1: and facing serious prison time for fraud. Elizabeth is a
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Speaker 1: pretty unpopular figure, as she called some investors their life savings,
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Speaker 1: but to portray her realistically, Amanda had to sympathize and
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Speaker 1: relate to her as much as possible. Now that Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: is said to be sentenced in September, Amanda still feels
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Speaker 1: compassionate for her. She also knows she's got to pay
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Speaker 1: for what she's done. She tells variety. I know whatever
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Speaker 1: she sentenced with, it's what she deserves. But I also
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Speaker 1: know in my gut that there's a space for her
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Speaker 1: outside of prison. If she goes to prison, she'll get
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Speaker 1: out and invent something new that will work. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if I'm the only person who feels that way.
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Speaker 1: I'd love to see her take responsibility in a very
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Speaker 1: vocal way, which she has not. If she can just
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Speaker 1: take accountability and move on, she lied a lot. She's
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Speaker 1: also a mother. She has her whole life ahead of
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Speaker 1: her she's only my age. The dropout is on Hulu
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Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood.