Ryan Murphy’s Feud Finishes What Truman Capote Started
Capote stabbed his rich friends in the back. Capote vs. the Swans asks us not to care.
Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts) and Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) share more than a cigarette in the new FX series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.
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We meet Babe Paley in 1968. She’s called Truman Capote uptown to rage about her husband Bill’s latest affair—he’s screwing Happy Rockefeller, the governor’s wife. Truman (Tom Hollander) quietly surveys the crime scene and tells Babe (Naomi Watts) to calm down. “Be the great lady you are,” he whispers, urging her to get her revenge with a van Gogh or Gauguin. Her pride is wounded, but she’ll get over it.
Indeed, she tells him, “the only person who could ever really hurt me is you.” Hurt her he will, with the gory details he gathers that very afternoon.