Ally McBeal star unrecognisable in new series Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans

After a seven-year wait, an award-winning anthology series returns with a fan favourite joining the star-studded cast.

Fans have waited seven long years for the next instalment of Ryan Murphy's’s award-winning anthology series, Feud, with the second season’s premiere date announced today.

Titled Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, the FX series will premiere locally on BINGE on February 1 and follow the scandalous saga of acclaimed American author Truman Capote and his socialite “swans”, an elite group of glamorous women who dominated high society New York.

Based on Laurence Leamer’s best-selling book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, the show explores the author’s life in New York City in the ‘70s after the success of his novel In Cold Blood. From his new-found fame, Capote surrounded himself the city’s most stylish and wealthy women.

Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans stars the likes of Naomi Watts and Demi Moore.

But their relationships sour after he betrays them by publishing the scandalous 1975 short story La Côte Basque 1965, which exposed the women’s innermost secrets.

His actions consequently banished him from high society and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction.

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Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart also appears on the show. Picture: Pari Dukovic/FX

Calista Flockhart played the title role in Ally McBeal from 1997 to 2002.

Tom Hollander as Truman Capote. Picture: Pari Dukovic/FX

The platform also released first images of the star-studded cast, which includes Australian actress Naomi Watts as Barbara “Babe” Paley, the wife of CBS founder William S. Paley; Chloë Sevigny as Andy Warhol’s muse C. Z. Guest; Calista Flockhart as Jackie Kennedy’s younger sister Lee Radziwill; Demi Moore as Ann Woodward, the widow of banking heir Billy Woodward; Molly Ringwald as Johnny Carson’s second wife, Joanne Carson; and Diane Lane as Slim Keith, the former wife of Howard Hawks who discovered Lauren Bacall.

Naomi Watts will play one of Capote’s ‘swans’ on the series. Picture: FX

Demi Moore plays the widow of a banking heir. Picture: FX

Tom Hollander plays the lead role as Capote and Joe Mantello, Russell Tovey and late actor Treat Williams will also star. This was one of Williams last roles before he died in a motorbike accident in Vermot this past June.

Murphy – who is also the creator of the American Horror Story series – brought viewers the first instalment in 2017 in Feud: Bette and Joan.

The series scored 18 Emmy nominations that year, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Susan Sarandon who played Bette Davis, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford.

The show detailed the conflict between Hollywood icons Crawford and Davis as they filmed their infamous 1962 drama What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Feud: Capote Vs The Swans premieres on February 1 on BINGE

Originally published as Ally McBeal star unrecognisable in new series Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans