Why The Feud Actresses Would Never Trade Places With Capote's Swans

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The actresses in the series are themselves all too familiar with fame and "It" girl status. TheWrap's editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman sat down with Naomi Watts, who plays Paley; Chloë Sevigny (Guest); Diane Lane (Keith); Calista Flockhart (Radziwill) and Molly Ringwald (Carson) as they talk about influence, money and beauty — and the generational shifts from the era of Capote's Swans to today.

NAOMI WATTS I read everything that was available — and there was plenty. They were the envy of women at that time. And I don't know that there are parallels — but yes, we've all been around a lot. We're not all out lunching or striving to be on the arm of someone powerful, so there were plenty of differences as well.

I think that we've all had our private lives exposed in certain ways over the years that maybe we didn't feel comfortable with. So there was that to draw on. For me, at least.

DIANE LANE We're meeting these women at a later stage of their evolution where they're almost vapor-locked in people's understanding of them. And they're never going to be allowed to stray far from that moment of apex achievement, fame. It's a different world now and it is a different playing field now. Women are afforded more options and more seasons — as Jane Fonda said — and I think also incarnations within one lifetime.