Decades before Diane Lane was cast as Slim Keith Feud: Capote vs Swansthe actress met some of Keith’s real-life friends, whom Truman Capote called “swans.”
“I got to meet some of those characters, Gloria Vanderbilt and Lee Radziwill, and there was still an aura of betrayal,” Lane, 59, tells PEOPLE of the Swans crash with Capote. “It was right around the time Truman Capote died.”
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Lee Radziwill.
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On the other hand, Lane found that “there was still an undercurrent of taint that people tried to say they didn’t mind: ‘No, I’m not defined by that. Pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain.’ ”
Calista Flockhart portrays the late Radziwill on Quarrel opposite fellow swans Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Chloë Sevigny and Naomi Watts.
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Calista Flockhart on ‘Feud: Capote Vs. Swans’.
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Capote’s friendship with Manhattan high society soured after he published “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a chapter from his book Answered prayers which exposed women’s secrets, including the affair that Babe Paley’s (Watts) husband allegedly had with the New York governor’s wife and the claim that Ann Woodward (Moore) killed her husband. (The 1955 murder of Anna’s husband, William Jr., was ruled an accident.)
“Being a celebrity meant having a moat around you which meant you had a private life, which of course invited scrutiny, questioning and wonder,” Lane says of being in the limelight in the ’60s and ’70s. “I think it’s at your own risk these days. If you’re trying to pretend you’re not of the people, you can get away with that kind of exclusivity less and less.”
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Lee Radziwill and Truman Capote in 1967.
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“Perhaps Truman was the first domino in the cultural shift then,” Lane speculates.
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The Oscar nominee prefers to stay away from Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter.
“I can’t stand the heat, so I don’t go into that kitchen,” she says. “I just don’t want to know, so I don’t participate. It’s still 1987 for me, so you do whatever you want and I’m going to enjoy my life, because I’m in denial about the amount of surveillance. I would never want to read the comments section of anything.”
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Feud: Capote vs. Swans airs Wednesdays at 10pm ET on FX.
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