Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Behind the First Significant Death in ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’
The penultimate episode of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans sees Babe Paley, the New York high-society socialite played by Naomi Watts, succumb to cancer and take her dying breath on her bed, estranged from friend Truman Capote (Tom Hollander). The shot of Paley’s death is a rare moment of inertness for the show, a deliberate […]
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Calista Flockhart on Dealing With Sudden ‘Ally McBeal’ Fame: “I Stopped Leaving My House”
Calista Flockhart is opening up about her titular role in the hit ’90s show Ally McBeal. In a conversation for The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, the Feud: Capote vs. The Swans star discussed how her quick rise to fame thanks to Ally McBeal changed her daily life. Flockhart, who was in a play at […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Calista Flockhart on TV Return in ‘Feud,’ ‘Ally McBeal’ Era and Urging Harrison Ford to Do ‘Shrinking’
Calista Flockhart, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a TV legend. The actress shot to fame 27 years ago playing a Harvard Law graduate who goes to work in a Boston firm on David E. Kelley’s groundbreaking Fox comedy series Ally McBeal (1997-2002), for which she garnered three […]
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The Secret Sauce to Impersonating Capote, Dior, Prince Andrew and Dodi Fayed
Khalid Abdalla The Crown Abdalla’s first question after being cast as Dodi Fayed in The Crown felt like a simple one: What did Princess Diana’s lover sound like? “The extraordinary research team had just one thing that they were able to send me, which was of Dodi calling in to Larry King to ask Burt […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Tom Hollander on ‘Capote vs. The Swans,’ Playing One of the “Evil Gays” on ‘White Lotus’ and That Time J. Law Recognized Him
Tom Hollander, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a brilliant British character actor who has distinguished himself on the stage and screens big and small, with the New York Times describing him as “vitally funny in dramatic roles [and] wrenchingly somber in comic ones.” Indeed, over the course […]
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Hollywood Flashback: Truman Capote Won an Emmy With Lee Radziwill by His Side
In Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology offering Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, author Truman Capote and his flock of socialite friends spend much of their leisure time preening at La Côte Basque, a French bistro on West 55th Street in Manhattan. But on one memorable occasion, Capote escorted one of his high society besties, Lee Radziwill, […]
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“F*** This, Let’s Just Talk About It”: Jodie Foster, Jennifer Aniston, Sofía Vergara Let Loose on THR’s Drama Actress Roundtable
“I don’t know if anybody told you, but none of us knows what we’re doing,” announces two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster halfway through the Drama Actress Emmy Roundtable. She’s surrounded by two more Oscar winners — Expats’ Nicole Kidman and Lessons in Chemistry’s Brie Larson — who nod in agreement. The True Detective star continues, […]
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‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ Writer Breaks Down the Moment Truman and Babe Paley Became Soul Mates
FX/Hulu’s Feud: Capote vs. the Swans depicts the infamous rift between writer Truman Capote and his “swans” — a handpicked collection of Manhattan socialites who ice out Capote from New York society after he publishes a short story loosely based on Babe Paley and her husband’s various infidelities. In this scene from the pilot, written […]
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Tom Hollander on the Fantasy Ending of ‘Feud’ and Why He Doesn’t See Truman Capote as a Villain
[This story contains spoilers from Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, ” “Phantasm Forgiveness.”] Truman Capote never finished his novel Answered Prayers, the exposé on high society whose early excerpts set off a decades-long feud between the novelist and the wealthy socialite women he referred to as his “swans.” Though, an unfinished version of the book was […]
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Naomi Watts on Babe Paley’s ‘Feud’ Story Arc and if She and Capote Ever Rekindled
[This story contains spoilers from episode seven of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.] American socialite and former magazine editor Babe Paley was married to CBS founder William S. Paley for 31 years. But according to Naomi Watts, who portrays her in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, her relationship with Truman Capote was the […]
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Calista Flockhart on High Stakes of Playing Lee Radziwill in ‘Feud’ and Sad End of Old New York
[This story contains spoilers from the sixth episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, “Hats, Gloves and Effete Homosexuals.”] Feud: Capote vs. the Swans is a reunion for Calista Flockhart and showrunner Jon Robin Baitz, who created Brothers & Sisters on which the actress starred during its five-season run. It was an instant yes, says […]
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Critics’ Conversation: Winter TV’s Wicked Games
THR’s TV critics weigh in on a conspicuously murderous past few months of small-screen offerings, with a wide range of whodunits dominating the landscape — and a few refreshing exceptions to the rule (thank you, Max’s Sort Of!).
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