Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, and Chloë Sevigny lead the cast of FX’s FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans, based on Laurence Leamer’s Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. The second installment of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series will premiere on January 31, 2024 on FX and FXX with the release of the first two episodes.
New episodes of the eight-episode season air on Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT.
The first season, FEUD: Bette and Joan, premiered in March 2017 and explored the relationship between classic movie stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Susan Sarandon starred as Bette Davis, Jessica Lange played Joan Crawford, and Judy Davis played gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.
“Acclaimed writer Truman Capote (Hollander) surrounded himself with a coterie of society’s most elite women – rich, glamorous socialites who defined a bygone era of high society New York – whom he nicknamed ‘the swans.’ Beautiful and distinguished, the group included grande dame Barbara ‘Babe’ Paley (Watts), Slim Keith (Lane), C.Z. Guest (Sevigny) and Lee Radziwill (Flockhart),” reads FX’s synopsis.
“Enchanted and captivated by these doyennes, Capote ingratiated himself into their lives, befriending them and becoming their confidante, only to ultimately betray them by writing a thinly veiled fictionalization of their lives, exposing their most intimate secrets. When an excerpt from the book Answered Prayers, Capote’s planned magnum opus, was published in Esquire, it effectively destroyed his relationship with his swans, banished him from the high society he so loved and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.”
The cast of the second installment of FEUD also includes Demi Moore as Ann “Bang-Bang” Woodward, Molly Ringwald as Joanne Carson, Treat Williams as Bill Paley, Joe Mantello as Jack Dunphy, and Russell Tovey as John O’Shea.
Jon Robin Baitz wrote FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans and Gus Van Sant, Max Winkler, and Jennifer Lynch directed. Ryan Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Baitz, Van Sant, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Naomi Watts, Eric Kovtun, and Scott Robertson executive produced.
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