Prior to influencers and “Real Housewives,” there were swans.
In Ryan Murphy’s FX series “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” a group of women in the upper levels of New York society are portrayed by Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloe Sevigny, and Molly Ringwald as the “swans.”
The adaptation of Lawrence Leamer’s book, “Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era,” centers on the swans’ friendship with renowned author Truman Capote (Tom Hollander).
However, once Capote revealed their most scandalous and dark secrets in “La Côte Basque, 1965,” an excerpt from his book “Answered Prayers,” everything fell apart.
Talking about “Vengeance,” “Loss,” and how words “can ruin someone’s life,” DEMI MOORE
from “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” (Variety/John Nacion via Getty Images)
According to Moore’s summary of the series in an FX preview, “It’s about betrayal and relationship and friendship and integrity.”
For more about the real-life swans, continue reading.
In the film, Demi Moore portrays Ann Woodward, an actress and model who wed William Woodward Jr., a bank wealth heir and veteran.
After shooting her husband dead and saying she thought he was a burglar, Woodward was later implicated of her husband’s murder. Although she was cleared of all charges, the reputation followed her until she killed herself in 1975, a few weeks before “La Côte Basque,” a novel by Truman Capote that ridiculed her by portraying her as a barely concealed gold digger who kills her husband.
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According to Women’s Wear Daily, Woodward and Capote had a brief encounter in 1956 during which she called him a slur, and he calls her mrs bang bang.
