The group included grande dame Barbara 'Babe' Paley (Naomi Watts, The Watcher), Slim Keith (Diane Lane, House of Cards (2013)), C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny, Bloodline) and Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart, Supergirl). Capote became enchanted and captivated by these ladies. He entered their lives, befriended them and became their confidante, but ultimately betrayed 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 loved and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.
The eight-episode limited series airs with the first two episodes on Wednesday, January 31 at 10pm on FX, concurrently with a special Director's Cut of the first episode on FXX. All episodes, including the Director's Cut, will be available to stream on Hulu the next day.
The series also stars Demi Moore (American Horror Story: Delicate) as Ann 'Bang-Bang' Woodward, Molly Ringwald (Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) as Joanne Carson, Treat Williams (Chesapeake Shores), who passed away in July, as Bill Paley, Joe Mantello (Hollywood (2020)) as Jack Dunphy and Russell Tovey (Years and Years) as John O'Shea.
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans was written for television by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Gus Van Sant, Max Winkler and Jennifer Lynch. The series is produced by Ryan Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Baitz, Van Sant, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Naomi Watts, Eric Kovtun and Scott Robertson. It is produced by 20th Television.
