Amanda Seyfried is a frantically anxious Elizabeth Holmes in the first trailer for Hulu’s The Dropout. The limited series, premiering March 3, follows the true story of the Theranos founder as she fought to bring a medical advancement to life and spiraled into oblivion in the process.
The trailer introduces the one-time world’s youngest self-made female billionaire at simpler times — in a Stanford dorm room where she decides to drop out to pursue Theranos, a company built on the idea of innovating fast-tracked health diagnoses with only a single droplet of blood.
“The world works in certain ways until a new great idea comes along and changes everything,” Seyfried’s Holmes states in the first-look clip. But what follows this breakthrough idea is a struggle to get the science to match up and even more of a fight to be taken seriously. The quicker she finds her star…
