Just as the release of her Netflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story arrives, Molly Ringwald has picked up her next big role. Deadline reports that Ringwald has boarded the cast of the second season of Feud, dubbed Feud: Capote’s Women. The news follows recent reports that Demi Moore has also been lined up for the role of Ann Woodward in the new season.
In Feud: Capote’s Women, Ringwald will reportedly be playing Joanne Carson, the second wife of former The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson and a close friend of Truman Capote (Tom Hollander). The season will be set in the 70s leading up to the death of Capote in 1984, focusing on the author betraying several female friends by publishing a roman à clef short story in 1975.
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The cast for Capote’s Women also includes Naomi Watts as Babe Paley, wife of CBS’s Bill Paley; Calista Flockhart as Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jackie Kennedy; Diane Lane as Slim Keith; and Chloe Sevigny as C.Z. Guest. Gus Van Sant is on board to direct all eight episodes, while series writer Jon Robin Baitz serves as showrunner.
Additionally, Baitz, Van Sant, Watts, and Murphy are executive producing the new season alongside fellow season 2 producers Dede Gardner, Tim Minear, and Alexis Martin Woodall. 20th Television, Plan B Entertainment, and Ryan Murphy Productions are the producing studios.
Filming on Feud: Capote’s Women will start this fall in New York.
Molly Ringwald Can Be Seen in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Coincidentally, Feud comes from Ryan Murphy, who co-created Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story with Ian Brennan. That series, hitting Netflix on Sept. 21, features Ringwald as Dahmer’s mother. This follows an appearance in the acclaimed series The Bear with her other small screen work in recent years including a recurring role in Riverdale and appearances in Tales of the City and Creepshow.
Ringwald rose to fame with her roles in The Facts of Life and a handful of John Hughes movies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink. More recently, she appeared in The Kissing Booth series along with other films like All These Small Moments, Siberia, and Montauk.
Ringwald’s name has also come up in recent months after reports that Selena Gomez would be rebooting Sixteen Candles as a new series on Peacock. The new version is called 15 Candles and Ringwald spoke about how happy it makes her that the film is getting reimagined.
“I am so happy about that,” Ringwald said, via E! News. “I really do feel like when people always ask me about rebooting my movies, I am like, ‘No those movies were wonderful,’ but what they should do is take inspiration from them and do something completely different but inspired, so that just sounds fantastic.”
