Anyone who has followed Diane Lane’s remarkable career over the last few decades has their personal favorite roles: It could be the gifted American girl who falls for a Parisian boy in George Roy Hill’s “A Little Romance,” the hard-rock singer in the dystopian world of “Streets of Fire,” the cheating suburban wife of “Unfaithful,” the heartbroken author who finds a new life in Italy in “Under the Tuscan Sun” or any of the other dozens more memorable heroines she’s played. Earlier this year, audiences were treated to Lane’s Emmy-nominated portrayal of the feisty socialite Slim Keith in FX’s series “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.
” She left a lasting impression as one of the beautiful “swans,” society women who were betrayed by Truman Capote when he exposed their secrets in his Esquire article “La Côte Basque 1965.” The actor, who also was nominated for an Emmy for her performance in 1989’s “Lonesome Dove,” recently talked about her experience with The Envelope: What was it about this project that sparked your interest? I loved the first season of “Feud” very much, so I had my ears to the track to see when Ryan Murphy was going to follow it up. I thought the show was a game-changer in terms of creating drama based on real-life, notorious characters whose disagreements were murmured about in the culture.
I think [writer/showrunner] Jon Robin Baitz, Ryan and [director] Gus Van Sant were perfect collaborators, and to be honest, it was .