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How Feud’s Naomi Watts Perfected the Already Perfect Babe Paley


“It’s fun to play someone glamorous, but it’s also hard work. I sat there for hours every morning trying my best to look exactly right.”

She calls for her best friend, Tom Hollander’s Truman Capote, who arrives with Valium and a sympathetic ear, as well as a bit of advice: Don’t file for divorce. As a onetime Vogue fashion editor turned socialite supreme, Paley exemplified beauty, grace, and perfection, all of which, Feud leads us to believe, she worked tirelessly to achieve. “So there was no real mimicry of Babe’s behaviors, her voice, or how she moved, but I did study pictures and looked very carefully at her eyes and how wide her smile might be or how her hands were placed and I just put together whatever I could.”

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Naomi Watts cuts a chic figure in jacket and jeans in NYC... as she plugs Feud: Capote vs The Swans where she plays ultra-glam socialite Babe Paley