On Wednesday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon played Nathan Fielder while guest Jamie Lee Curtis played Elizabeth Holmes to spoof A24’s compelling documentary “You Can See Everything.”
“Now be honest. Do you really want to attend the show tonight?” Fallon asks, doing his best Fielder impression. “Of course I do. I love talking to you,” Curtis replied as she donned a blonde wig and looked deeply into the late-night host’s eyes. “So you’re not just here to promote your new show ‘The Newlyweds’?” “No, I’m communicating with you as a human being,” Curtis said. “Why would I cheat on you? There’s no reason for me to do that. There’s nothing I can cheat you with.”
“Good conversation,” Fallon concluded, but not before asking one final question: “Are you for real right now?” “I’m always realistic,” Curtis responded. As Fallon left he said “Thank God! Damn, what a jerk!”
Curtis as mentioned in Cold Open it was She appeared on the show to promote her new NBC sitcom, “Newlyweds,” which premiered Oct. 23. The logline for the show, which stars Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, describes it as “a love story set later in the life of a buttoned-up professor who hastily marries a free-spirited woman after a whirlwind courtship.”
Curtis will appear in a recurring guest star role on the series and also co-created the series with Gail Lerner, who was fired from the series earlier this month due to “creative differences.” In a statement when the news broke, Lerner described the experience of working on the show as “the most enjoyable TV experience of my life.”
“You Can See Everything,” which opened in theaters earlier this month on October 16, was a huge success both critically and at the box office, grossing $45.1 million domestically to date. Fielder and co-director Lance Oppenheim worked quietly on the film for more than three years; It offers a disturbing glimpse into the month before Theranos founder was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors.
Watch the full cold open here.