
Ryan MurphyHas found his latest muse. Naomi Watts.
According to DeadlineThe actress will star in Murphy’s second season of FX series. Feud. She’ll be a socialite Barbara “Babe” Paley, who fell out with famed writer Truman Capote in 1975 after Esquire published an excerpt of his unfinished book Answered Prayers, a thinly veiled tell-all about New York City’s elite. Here’s an extract La Côte Basque 1965 included intimate details about Babe’s unhappy marriage to CBS founder William S. Paley. After its publication, Capote’s formerly close circle of wealthy female friends—who the author affectionately called his “swans”—shut him out.
Showrunner Jon Robin Baitz will base the eight-episode series on Laurence LeamerBook by. Capote’s Women: True Story of Betrayal and Love in Capote’s WomenWith Good Will Hunting‘s Gus Van Sant attached as director.
Murphy still has not found his Capote. He wrote the Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which later became a movie starring Audrey Hepburn, as well as the true-crime classic,Cold Blood. The actor who died in the past Philip Seymour Hoffman famously won an Oscar for his uncanny portrayal of the author in the 2005 biopic Capote.