The actor explains how he had “a Studio 54 Truman” in mind for the role.
I thought about how different they were.
But I suppose both metiers are high society, arent they?
Naomi Watts as Barbara “Babe” Paley and Tom Hollander as Truman Capote in ‘Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans’.Credit:FX
The passage sparks an instant scandal.
Guest (Chloe Sevigny).
The show very much is, for me, about the profound loneliness of beauty and fame.
“They’re two broken people.
They’re both in similar kinds of pain,” Baitz says of their dynamics.
“They’re both very invested in survival in society, while being seen.
They’re both profoundly lonely people.
They’re both intelligent and performative.
I knew that he was a drunk.
I had a Studio 54 Truman in my mind, he says.
I had a sense of him as a writer and as a Southern man.
The world of the Swans I didn’t really know about.
He needed these ladies.
He obviously needed them a lot.
And that’s why he couldn’t live without them.
