With the brand new season of FX’s anthology sequence Feud, Calista Flockhart is returning to TV for the primary time in a number of years, and the actress is already trying to the longer term for thrilling tasks.
Flockhart walked the crimson carpet on the premiere of Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans in New York Metropolis on Tuesday, and she or he spoke with ET’s Rachel Smith about her new sequence — in addition to renewed curiosity in her breakthrough sequence, Ally McBeal.
Flockhart not too long ago reunited together with her former Ally McBeal castmates on the Emmys earlier this month — as a part of the present’s celebration of TV historical past and milestones — and Flockhart admitted that the reunion stirred some chatter a few potential reboot or revival sequence.
“I think there are some people talking about a reboot, but I don’t know much about it,” Flockhart shared.
Regardless of not being a part of the preliminary conversations, she stated she “would be game” to be part of a revisiting of the sequence, including, “Sure, I’m always game.”
In the mean time, Flockhart is at present starring in Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans. The eight-part season will probably be tailored from Laurence Leamer’s Capote’s Ladies: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Tune for an Period.
Leamer’s ebook particulars the complicated relationships and scandals that surrounded creator Truman Capote’s then unfinished closing novel, Answered Prayers, which was based mostly on and would supposedly betray the socialites he affectionately known as “swans.”
It was presupposed to be Capote’s “magnum opus” earlier than an excerpt from the ebook, “La Côte Basque 1965,” was printed in a 1975 situation of Esquire, derailing his relationship with the ladies and the way forward for the ebook.
Within the sequence, Flockhart stars as Lee Radziwill, a socialite and public-relations government, who was additionally the youthful sister of First Woman Jackie Kennedy. Flockhart performs one of many titular Swans, alongside Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Demi Moore and Molly Ringwald. In the meantime, Tom Hollander stars as Capote.
In line with Flockhart, being on set with all these gifted performers and creators “was nothing short of amazing.”
“I love everybody, we had so much fun. We supported each other, we talked about everything. We just had a really good time,” she shared.
The position marks Flockhart’s first main sequence since showing as Cat Grant on Supergirl and starring in Brothers & Sisters on ABC, and Flockhart defined why she got here again for this challenge, sharing, “It was the right time for me and here’s the great writing.”
She stated she was additionally “obsessed” with the primary season of Feud, and that her season has “all of these amazing actors,” so it wasn’t a tough choice to make. “It doesn’t get any better than this, so I said, ‘Yes, yes, yes!'” Flockhart added.
FX’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans premieres with two episodes on Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 10 p.m. on FX, the subsequent day on Hulu.
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