Tom Hollander, the star of FX's 'The Feud: Capote vs. The Swans' sat down with our senior editor to discuss the dark side of Truman Capote.
In Ryan Murphy’s latest FX series, “FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans,” director Gus Van Sant forgoes cinematic tropes in favor of a topsy turvy screenplay that echo’s the obsessive suffering of the infamous writerin which he exposes the secrets of his powerful friends, a group of glamorous women he calls the Swans.
HOLLANDER: Good point. The quality of the writing is such that it is wordy in the best possible way. Obviously Truman is a writer, so he speaks like a writer. But it was because it was so sustained. It was unrelenting for six months. HOLLANDER: How it helped me was that in this story, the drama is pretty dark, and Truman behaves in a pretty toxic way. Reading his writing really helped me commit to his toxicity, because the writing is so beautiful.
HOLLANDER: It’s not just me. All of these things are collaborations, Gus Van Sant is choosing the take, because Gus knows this territory. He knows it deeply.HOLLANDER: He made me very nervous at the beginning, because he doesn’t say very much. Some directors like to play god, but Gus doesn’t do that at all. Gus almost lets you forget that he’s there. At the beginning, when I was not confident, I was like, “What’s he thinking? He’s not saying anything.
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