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First, it was Bette vs. Joan, and now it’s Capote vs. his “Swans.” FX’s anthology series “Feud” is officially back for a second season—and Naomi Watts is the first actor tapped to star. Want to learn more about this casting announcement? From details about Watts’ new role to what the new season is currently titled, here’s what we know about this exciting project.
“Feud” Season 2
First reported by Deadline, after taking on Bette vs. Joan, Ryan Murphy and Plan B are working on the second season of FX’s “Feud.” The new season is currently titled “Capote’s Women” and is adapted from Laurence Leamer’s bestseller “Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era.” Naomi Watts will star as Babe Paley, a fixture of New York society in the 1960s and 1970s. The feud in question, as the book chronicles, is the betrayal of Truman Capote’s cliche of female socialites when Capote published a short story called “La Côte Basque 1965” in Esquire in 1975, a thinly disguised chronicle of their secrets and scandals, with all of the “Basque” characters versions of his friends. Gus Van Sant (“Good Will Hunting,” “Milk”) is set to direct all eight episodes with the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Joe Robin Baitz (“A Fair Country”) writing all eight and serving as showrunner. According to Deadline, a worldwide search is now underway to play Capote, as well as several other of the titular Socialite Swans. Murphy regulars Ulrich/Dawson/Kritzer Casting was the casting team for the first season of “Feud.”
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