SPOILER ALERT! This put up comprises particulars from the primary two episodes of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans doesn’t waste time diving into the darkish underbelly of Truman Capote‘s life.
The FX sequence tells the story of his rift along with his socialite pals after he printed a thinly veiled account of their less-than-shiny private lives. Fairly than take a sluggish burn method, the sequence weaves the narrative by a number of timelines, one in all which reveals Capote’s downward spiral as he offers with the fallout of those high-society girls turning in opposition to him.
By the second episode, Tom Hollander‘s Capote is spiraling right into a drunken breakdown, lashing out on the few individuals nonetheless prepared to be round him after his betrayal — together with his associate, John O’Shea (Russell Tovey). There are two scenes in that episode the place O’Shea assaults Capote after he’s mentioned one thing significantly nasty. One is of their dwelling, however the different is on the Thanksgiving dinner desk with an viewers that features Capote’s longtime pal Joanne Carson (Molly Ringwald).
Hollander known as the scenes “horrifying,” commending Tovey for his “actually sensible, visceral, terrifying efficiency.”
“I’ve by no means performed somebody being overwhelmed up by their associate, and it was scary after we did it. I discovered it upsetting, but it surely was additionally humorous in the way in which that this stuff may be, and Russell simply…snaps out and in of character. He was very variety about it,” Hollander instructed Deadline.
He additionally recalled taking pictures the scenes many months aside from one another, since the entire scenes in Los Angeles have been filmed on the finish of manufacturing. That put most likely an eight-month span in between the scene the place O’Shea hits Capote of their house to when he assaults him on the Thanksgiving dinner desk, although they occur inside minutes of one another within the episode.
“I’m [if] it’s onerous to look at as a result of it felt like it will be,” Hollander additionally mentioned.
Hollander described Feud as a “fantasia” that takes a extra liberal method to this a part of Capote’s life, which additionally influenced the way in which that he ready to play the character.
“I began with it by watching Philip Seymour Hoffman [in Capote] and hoping that there was one thing left to do this he hadn’t already nailed,” he mentioned. “I used to be happy to to assume that there was new territory, or a minimum of that our story was so totally different from that story that I might do my very own factor.”
The sequence is, as Hollander factors out, “tonally so fully totally different” from the 2005 movie, giving him the liberty to “embody [Capote’s] spirit and his power [rather than] do an ideal impression.”
“He’s virtually a legendary determine on this story. On condition that the way in which that the sequence tonally strikes round in such dramatic methods from one episode to the following…He’s a delusion,” added Hollander.
The primary two episodes of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans are streaming on Hulu. New episodes air on FX on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
