The late Hair and Everwood star, who handed away in June 2023, can be seen enjoying the philandering media mogul, husband of Babe Paley and former pal of Capote’s in his last TV position. In “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a personality named Sidney Dillon, who intently resembled William, is depicted having a one-night stand with the spouse of a New York governor and trying to cowl it up. William’s quite a few affairs have been already frequent data, however they turned the discuss of the city solely after the publication of the passage. Babe was outraged—not at her husband, however at Capote. Whereas she stopped talking to the author, William did take considered one of his calls, however solely to inform him that he was preoccupied with caring for his spouse, who was then battling lung most cancers.

Chris Chalk as James Baldwin

The North Carolina native—who’s appeared in Perry Mason in addition to 12 Years a Slave, Homeland, and When They See Us—is ready to embody James Baldwin, the era-defining creator of Giovanni’s Room and If Beale Road Might Speak. The author ran in the identical circles as Capote and attended his 1966 Black and White Ball, however their relationship was difficult. In Bennett Miller’s Philip Seymour Hoffman-led biopic Capote, the latter is proven talking dismissively about Baldwin’s work at a celebration. In personal, he was much more scathing, writing in a letter to literary critic Newton Arvin: “I detest Jimmy’s fiction: it’s crudely written and of a balls-aching boredom.” Simply three years after Capote’s passing, Baldwin died of abdomen most cancers.

Ella Beatty as Kerry O’Shea