A look at the real-life American socialites whose soiled relationship with the ostentatious novelist is at the center of the newest season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series, 'Capote vs. the Swans.'
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The Swans, author Truman Capote’s close relationship with a group of wealthy American socialites unravels when he permits Esquire magazine, in 1975 and 1976, to publish four chapters of his unfinished novel Answered Prayers, in which the unsavory personal details of the women’s lives are exploited in a fictionalized telling of life among society’s elite.
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 eight-episode FX series from Ryan Murphy depicts Capote’s falling out with the group of upper-class women — whom he’d dubbed his “swans” — and their efforts to excommunicate him from the society life he so desperately clung to following the unprecedented success of his true-crime novel In Cold Blood.
Guest (Chloë Sevigny), Ann Woodward (Demi Moore), Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart) and Joanne Carson (Molly Ringwald), all of whom struggled as their inner complexities were trivialized by the men around them, including Capote, played by Tom Hollander.
Though some of the swans did manage to turn the social capital they gained as fashion icons into successful business ventures, there was a somewhat constant struggle against betrayals of various kinds.
Ultimately, it was that need for importance and the desire to maintain their coveted social posts that created a blind spot for each woman when it came to Capote.
“As tragic as they are and as vulnerable as they are, they also were determined and arrived, and maybe found themselves in gilded cages when they ended up there,” said Watts, who’s also an executive producer of the series, at the presser.
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