August 17, 2022
Chloë Sevigny Will Play C.Z. Guest In FX's 'Feud: Capote's Women' Season 2
Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 2 MIN.
A legendary feud is brewing between Chloë Sevigny and Naomi Watts and, luckily for us, it will all play out on screen.
That's right Ryan Murphy's "Feud" anthology series is back for a second season, and this time the show will focus on how writing wunderkind Truman Capote betrayed several of his closest female friends and pit them against each other.
As reported by Deadline, the new season is titled "Feud: Capote's Women," and Sevigny will portray C.Z. Guest, with Watts in the role of Babe Paley.
Serving as showrunner for the season, Jon Robin Baitz is set to write all of the season's eight episodes.
Capote was particularly known for his ability to infiltrate social circles, and the top socialites he befriended included Paley (Watts), wife of CBS head Bill Paley; Slim Keith; C.Z. Guest (Sevigny); Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's sister, Gloria Guinness and Pamela Churchill Harriman, ex-wife of Winston's son and future wife of Slim's husband.
Capote reportedly betrayed them all by publishing story called "La Côte Basque 1965" in Esquire in 1975.
"La Côte Basque's characters were thinly disguised versions of Capote's female confidants and exposed their shocking secrets and scandals, from adultery to murder," Deadline reports. "Its publication destroyed Capote's friendships, with all of his swans cutting him off, as well as his reputation and his social standing."
Baitz, Gus Van Sant and Watts are all executive producing "Feud: Capote's Women" with Murphy, Plan B's Dede Gardner, Tim Minear, and Alexis Martin Woodall, who all executive produced/produced season 1, "Feud: Bette and Joan."
Filming for the show is set to begin in New York this fall. Will you be watching?