Top 10 Things Feud: Capote vs The Swans Got Factually Right & Wrong

Fact, fiction, or stranger than fiction? Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most notable plot points from the second season of the anthology series “Feud” that were grounded in reality and those where the writers exercised creative license. Our countdown includes Capote meets his boyfriend in a bathhouse, Ann Woodward kills her husband, Bill Paley’s bloody affair, and more! Which of the fabricated storylines did YOU initially believe was true? Let us know in the comments below!

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[mobrown]

Babe was betrayed by 2 of the most important men in her adult life smh I get why she never spoke to him again

[realmccoy]

the encounter between Babe and Capote on the street was all in Babeès imagination at her therapists office...it was not supposed to be seen as real.

[lisamorrison]

Truman really could have tried to disguise which real life friend he used for each character if he really loved them. I doubt he ever really did.

[Helux]

As a New Yorker, I can honestly say that this show has been more hyped than Capote's actual ball. My hat is off to Ryan Murphy's marketing team.

[robbbiago]

It would have been truly amazing to see a documentary about the Ball. And who doesn’t love Grey Gardens?! And Katherine Graham, was a truly remarkable woman.

[Foxeknighton-beatty]

I too, thought that the conversation of them meeting on the street was a fantasy during a therapy session. He hurt her so deeply that I don’t think that relationship could have ever been restored. She was more hurt by Truman’s betrayal than her own husband’s betrayal. She did say that Truman was the love of her life even though it was not a sexual relationship.

[elizabethpaczolt]

Your video captured the truth about Capote and Ann Woodward in the respect of her calling him a homophobic slur and him coming up with "Mrs. Bang Bang, " but that's pretty much all there ever was to their relationship, namely that one encounter. She was never one of his swans, she existed on the fringe of society because of the shooting, and his swans and the rest of society pretty much shunned her because they didn't believe for a minute that the shooting was an accident. I've read in the past that after the incident, her vindictive MIL pretty much never let Ann out of the house without momma being with her, so her appearances in the series are pretty much completely fabricated. She may have killed herself partially because of the short story, but Feud has way over embellished her presence in the life of Capote and his society ladies. She simply wasn't a factor until her death, when the swans could all then shed crocodile tears over a woman they never cared about in the first place just to make themselves look good.

Also, the swans were never in competition for GOH at his ball - Capote wanted to give the ball for HIMSELF, but knowing he couldn't do that, he picked Kay Graham from the beginning because she simply wasn't competition for his swans in terms of glamour (nor was he going to risk, at that time, falling out with any of them).

[RenataSantos-qwpz]

I'm fascinated by Truman Capote's life. I'm a avid reader but the lives of the authors whose books I read never interest me, he's the only one I really wanna know more about. It seems to me that he cared more about his work than anything else because it was he's onlu true love besides his mother who was allegedly rejected by high society. A truly interesting character to me.

[alfredbonnabel]

Why did Demi Moore have dark brunette hair? Ann Woodward had a dirty blonde hair color?

[greeneyedwarlock]

Tom Hollander and Naomi Watts deserve EMMY'S for both of their performances. They were FANTASTIC! I, however, never knew the depths to which Capote sank, both behaviorally, alcoholically and drug addiction wise. If Hollanders portrayal is even semi-close to reality, Capote was a TRULY repugnant train wreck!

[aliciacamille]

I'd hoped the show would have shown the aunt on his mother's side that raised him and encouraged his writings. She also became a writer later in life. Some of u may remember her....Google the Fruitcake Lady. She and Truman fell out in later years too because he never looked back when he became famous to those who took care of him.

[circussounds]

truman actually does appear briefly in footage of one of the grey gardens shoots by the maysles at east hampton
either at peter beards or andy’s. that
particular video is called ‘that summer’.

[kathycurtis]

Once he realized he was the combination court jester at dinner parties invited to entertain, the famous male friend the wives could have to amuse themselves and run around with, that the husbands didn't have to worry about, he started to feel used. The husbands didn't feel threatened by him, and he knew it. He was their wives lap dog. They were all filthy rich and powerful. He wasn't. Until one day he decided to show them how really powerful his pen was.
And apparently the swans weren't very nice people. God knows what he saw and what they said about each other, and how they treated people. None of them seemed to care about their children. Just a bunch of shallow social courtesans who couldn't age gracefully. Ironically, he made them famous 50 years later, otherwise, who would be talking about them today? Nobody.

[judyevancic]

The worst thing a parent, husband or friend can do is abandoned their child or wife and friend. But when it happens it creates an Anger so deep because of rejection. He spent his whole life looking for a true mother figure. He became a lost soul.

[sherrillsturm]

Excellent production values in every way, and I LOVE the appearances of the beautiful and talented ladies "of a certain age." Watching it is like a freeway accident. You want to look away, but can't. It's a given that private conversations events are scripted. I have not believed the "truth" of any of it, but the characterizations are devastating, especially Capote's. What a horrible group of people!

[rccfrontdesk]

That scene where he finds Babe on the street was definitely written and played as fabulist. It's a good bit of writing with Babe almost floating away on a cloud. A great example of lying to tell the truth. This is a really great show.

[DCFunBud]

Why did they cast a brunette to portray a famously blonde Ann Woodward? Would you have a brunette to portray Marilyn Monroe?

[leigharmstrong]

Grammatically better: She died without ever speaking to TrumanCapote again.👩🏻‍🏫❤
The way it’s spoken makes it sound as if she spoke to him when she died (…until her death)👏🏼👏🏼🫶🏼love your channel! TY💗

[LeaveAhNah]

Candace Bergen in that CBS interview said she remembered it being boring, and I believe Frank Sinatra and Mia farrow were highly anticipated and left after less than an hour

[stuartlee]

I knew Truman, having met him at Studio 54.