Thursday 18 August 2022 02:28 AM Tom Hollander to play Truman Capote in Feud season two trends now
Tom Hollander has been cast as Truman Capote in the upcoming second season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series Feud.
Season one, which aired in 2017, starred Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange respectively as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
Now season two, which Variety reports has also brought Diane Lane and Calista Flockhart aboard, will focus on how Truman alienated his New York society circle.
Uncanny: Tom Hollander (left) has been cast as Truman Capote (right) in the upcoming second season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series Feud
Diane Lane will be Nancy 'Slim' Keith and Calista Flockhart will portray Jackie Kennedy's younger and more vivacious sister Lee Radziwill.
News of their casting comes after it emerged Naomi Watts has been hired to play Barbara 'Babe' Paley, along with Chloe Sevigny as CZ Guest.
Slim Keith, Babe Paley, CZ Guest and Lee Radziwill were pillars of the New York society world that initially embraced Truman - only to freeze him out after he aired out their dirty laundry in an explosive short story.
Truman, who was born in the south and was a childhood friend of To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee, was launched into the New York beau monde after achieving phenomenal literary success in the 1950s and 60s.
Throwback to 1966: Truman was launched into the New York beau monde after achieving phenomenal literary success in the 1950s and 60s
Spot the resemblance: Diane Lane (left) has been cast as Nancy 'Slim' Keith (right), one of the Manhattan doyennes who befriended Truman before taking against him
His books Breakfast At Tiffany's and In Cold Blood became smash bestsellers and instant classics, and the Manhattan elite enfolded him in their midst.
A hard-drinking homosexual with a waspish sense of humor and a flair for gossip, he became particularly beloved of society ladies like Babe Paley and Gloria Vanderbilt.
The peak of his social ascendancy in his rarified new circle was the legendary Black And White Ball he threw at the Plaza Hotel in 1966.
Truman's masquerade ball welcomed a dazzling guest list that included not only the wealthy women he called his 'swans,' but also such celebs as Frank Sinatra and his then-wife Mia Farrow, as well as Harry Belafonte, Andy Warhol and Candice Bergen.
What a night: The peak of Truman's social ascendancy was the legendary Black And White Ball he threw at the Plaza Hotel; he is pictured at the fete with Lee Radziwill
Connections: Harrison Ford's wife Calista Flockhart (left) has been cast as Lee Radziwill (right), the younger and more vivacious sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Foreign royals ranging from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to the Maharani of Jaipur dotted the scene, as did America's then-first lady Lady Bird Johnson.
Within the decade though, Truman was rejected wholesale by his 'swans' after he betrayed their secrets in the service of his career.
In 1975 Esquire published his short story La Cote Basque 1965, which was named after a swank Manhattan restaurant popular with the city's upper
