Have you ever heard those jokes about knowing a writer? You know that one that says they might put you in a book? That’s precisely what happened to the ladies featured in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.
The eight-episode series based on the book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer, which we previously told you about, centers on Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and his relationship with a group of New York socialites he nicknamed The Swans. The group included grande dame Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts), Slim Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny) and Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart). Capote gained the trust of all the ladies and became a confidante. That is until he later betrayed them by writing a book that featured a “thinly veiled fictionalization of their lives exposing their most intimate secrets,” an excerpt of which was published in an issue of Esquire magazine.
Of course, this destroyed his relationship with all of the ladies, and he was ultimately ousted from the group. Until this series was released, we were unaware of these ladies or that they were deemed as the original housewives. The trailer is out now, and we are even more intrigued than we were before. The star-studded cast already had us, and now that we’ve seen the trailer, we are more than ready to watch the drama unfold.
You can check out the trailer below:
Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans will be released on January 31st, with two episodes set to air when it premieres. In addition to all the stars mentioned above, the series also stars 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. Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans was written by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Gus Van Sant, Max Winkler, and Jennifer Lynch. The show is executive-produced by Ryan Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Baitz, Van Sant, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Naomi Watts, Eric Kovtun, and Scott Robertson.
