Feud Trailer Shows Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart and More as ‘Swans’ Out to ‘Destroy’ Their Gossipy Guy Pal

Truman Capote may have been the first friend of the “original housewives”.

Feud: Capote vs. Swans is a follow-up to the anthology series’ 2017 debut season — and the like Bette and Joan, this story is based on a real-life drama. In the trailer released by FX on Wednesday, Capote (Tom Hollander) explodes his own social circle by writing an exposé about his powerful and privileged friends. The so-called “Swans” company quickly cut him off and put a target on his back.

Produced by Ryan Murphy, the limited series features a strong cast portraying the elite class of glamorous, wealthy New York women of the 1970s, with Calista Flockhart as Lee Radziwill, Chloë Sevigny as CZ Guest, Diane Lane as Nancy “Slim” Keith, Molly Ringwald as Joanne Carson, Naomi Watts as Babe Paley and Demi Moore as Ann Woodward.

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The eight-episode series, based on Laurence Leamer’s bestseller, Capote’s Wives: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and the Swan Song of an Age, shows the rise and fall of the hyped In cold blood the author as he “intrudes” into the lives of the socialites, “befriending them and becoming their confidant, only to eventually betray them by writing a thinly veiled fictionalization of their lives, exposing their most intimate secrets,” reads the synopsis of the show.

Calista Flockhart as Lee Radziwill in FEUD: Capote Vs. Swans.

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The trailer features Kennedy’s wife, Radziwill, who says that she and the swans “made New York the capital of the world” as they enjoy their glamorous lives, which are full of “sex, money and endless adventure.”

As Capote bows to them, Babe Paley seems to be the first to reveal some of the group’s secrets to the writer, as she tells him, “We see the importance of presentation. Underneath, however, is acting.”

“Tell me everything,” he replies.

She goes on to list some of the duplicity within their circle, as she tells him, “Even your sister will steal your man,” and also reveals a secret about the governor’s wife at the time, whom Capote calls “fat-ankleed” and “hairy.”

Naomi Watts as Babe Paley in FEUD: Capote Vs. Swans.

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Although he warned that even a fictionalized version of the swan story, which revealed some of their “deepest secrets,” would “hurt” them, an excerpt from Capote’s book was published in Esquiresending the ladies into a frenzy.

“Your story has cast its spell and robbed me of everything I have,” Keith angrily tells Capote in one scene before throwing a china plate at the wall and breaking it.

Among the salacious details he included in the exposé was the allegation that Woodward — who always seems willing to be inside the inner circle of swans — killed her husband, earning her the nickname “Bang Bang.”

Demi Moore as Ann Woodward in FEUD: Capote vs. Swans.

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Later, the ladies gather and vow to “be united and destroy him” after Keith advises to kick Capote “out of all high society” because “it will kill him.”

As the trailer ends, the disgraced writer receives more than his fair share of abuse as he is punched in the jaw, Woodward splashes a glass of wine in his face, and Carson yells “Get out!”

Ultimately, Capote’s betrayal and banishment from the glamorous world he entered sends him “into a spiral of self-destruction from which he will ultimately never recover,” the synopsis reads.

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The first two episodes Feud: Capote vs. Swans premieres January 31 at 10:00 PM ET on FX.

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