Molly Ringwald Joins Second Season of Ryan Murphy's FX Anthology Series FEUD
The second season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series Feud: Capote’s Women is coming together with new cast members who will tell a new classic Hollywood story that will revolve around Truman Capote. The latest to join the cast is Molly Ringwald, of teenage fame in classics Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, and 16 Candles.
In Capote’s Women, Ringwald will play Johnny Carson’s second wife Joanne Carson, a good friend of Capote’s who remained close to him until his death. She joins previously cast Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, Calista Flockhart, Diane Lane, and Chloë Sevigny in the cast. Additionally, Demi Moore is in talks for a part.
An adaptation of Laurence Leamer’s bestselling book, the miniseries is set in the 1970s and ends with Truman Capote’s death in 1984. It chronicles the tale of the famous wunderkind author (Hollander) as he stabs several of his female friends — whom he called his “swans” — in the back by publishing a roman à clef short story called “La Côte Basque 1965” in Esquire in 1975.
His inner circle of swans included Babe Paley (Watts), wife of CBS head Bill Paley; Slim Keith (Lane); Pamela Churchill Harriman, ex-wife of Winston’s son and future wife of Slim’s husband; Lee Radziwill ( Flockhart), sister of Jackie Kennedy; Gloria Guinness and C.Z. Guest (Sevigny).
Two-time Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant is set to direct all eight episodes, with Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated Jon Robin Baitz writing all episodes and serving as showrunner.
This marks a reunion for Murphy and Ringwald, who plays Jeffrey Dahmer’s stepmother Shari Dahmer in Murphy’s Netflix limited series Dahmer, which debuts this week. Ringwald also recently appeared on the hit FX series The Bear. I’ve always been a fan of hers, and I look forward to seeing her in another project.
via: Deadline