Be Nathan Fielder: > grow up in Vancouver, Canada > join your high school improv group alongside Seth Rogen > graduate with a commerce degree in 2005 > decide accounting isn't for you > start doing comedy > land a correspondent role on This Hour Has 22 Minutes > create a segment called Nathan on Your Side > give real people increasingly ridiculous advice with a completely straight face > turn the concept into Nathan for You on Comedy Central in 2013 at 29 > spend four seasons convincing real businesses to try increasingly absurd marketing schemes > sign an overall production deal with HBO in 2019 > convince them to fund The Rehearsal > build an exact replica of a New York bar so one man can practise a conversation > co-create The Curse with Benny Safdie and cast Emma Stone > return to The Rehearsal in 2025 and spend over two years learning to fly >actually pilot a Boeing 737 carrying more than 100 actors >secretly spend three years filming convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes > co-direct You Can See Everything with Lance Oppenheim > convince A24 to release the nearly three-hour documentary > make it for roughly $7 million > open in 2026 to $15 million from just 855 cinemas > sell out more than 2,000 screenings in one weekend deliver the biggest non-music documentary opening in over 20 years nice