Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans: FX shares a scandalous new trailer for the limited series

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The first trailer for Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs The Swans has arrived. Based on Laurence Leamer’s best-selling book, Capote’s Women: a True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, the limited series follows the titular author (Tom Hollander) and his volatile relationship with four of New York’s most affluent women – which he refers to as “the swans.”  The official synopsis reads: “Beautiful and distinguished the group included grande dame Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts), Slim Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z.

Guest (Chloë Sevigny) and Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart). 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.”  The upcoming series will also feature Demi Moore as Ann “Bang-Bang” Wood, Russell Tovey as John O’Shea, Molly Ringwald as Joanne Carson, Treat Williams as Bill Paley and Joe Mantello as Jack Dunphy.

On 3 January, FX surprised Feud fans when they released the scandalous new trailer for the eight-episode series. At the start of the video, Linda Ronstadt’s iconic track ‘You’re No Good’ plays in the background as Barbara and C.Z.

meet outside a regal New York restaurant.  “We made New York the capital of the world, the center of everything,” Slim says in a voice-over. “Sex, money and endless adventure.”  Things take an awkward and catty turn when Ann attempts to sit with the influential women, resulting in Lee pointedly declining.  “We see the importance of presentation, underneath though it’s all an act,” Slim says in a