The second season of Ryan Murphy’s Feud anthology collection — titled Capote Vs. The Swans — tells the story of author Truman Capote’s friendship and eventual falling-out with New York Metropolis’s most elite group of girls, whom he nicknamed The Swans.
Screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz primarily based his present on the guide Capote’s Ladies: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Track for an Period by Laurence Leamer, which was launched in October 2021.
The Swans include Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts), Nancy “Slim” Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z. Visitor (Chloë Sevigny) and Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart).
“It was like efficiency artwork that she put ahead into the world,” Watts informed Leisure Weekly in January 2024 about her function as Paley. “Every little thing she considered was deliberate — how she plans a cocktail party and who was there. Who’s sitting subsequent to one another? The place does the fork go? What are the materials of the napkins? Do the candles odor proper? All of this stuff that created such an enormous quantity of planning, however nothing was left for herself so typically.”
Watts, like her costars, underwent a serious transformation earlier than taking over the function.
“She was by no means filmed within the press. I didn’t have any recordings of her, audio or visible,” Watts added. “So, I needed to actually invent all that primarily based on what was out there.”
Hold scrolling to see how Watts and her costars’’ portrayals maintain up when in comparison with the actual socialites who impressed Feud: Capote vs. The Swans:
