Author Truman Capote earns the wrath of New York’s high society after unveiling devastating secrets in the official trailer for FX’s FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans. The second installment in Ryan Murphy’s FEUD anthology series focuses on the author’s relationship with the mega-rich women who run NYC and what happens when their hard-earned trust is shattered.
Tom Hollander leads the cast as Truman Capote. Naomi Watts plays Barbara “Babe” Paley, Diane Lane is Slim Keith, Chloë Sevigny is C.Z. Guest, and Calista Flockhart plays Lee Radziwill. Demi Moore stars as Ann “Bang-Bang” Woodward, Molly Ringwald is Joanne Carson, Treat Williams is Bill Paley, Joe Mantello is Jack Dunphy, and Russell Tovey is John O’Shea.
Season two of FEUD is based on Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer. Jon Robin Baitz adapted the book for the series, with Gus Van Sant, Max Winkler, and Jennifer Lynch directing. Ryan Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Baitz, Van Sant, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Naomi Watts, Eric Kovtun, and Scott Robertson serve as executive producers.
FX offers this description of the new season:
“Acclaimed writer Truman Capote 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, Slim Keith, C.Z. Guest, and Lee Radziwill. 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.”
FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans premieres with the release of the first two episodes on January 31, 2024 at 10pm ET/PT. New episodes of the eight-episode season arrive on Wednesdays.
