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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. My guest Molly Ringwald is having a full circle moment.

When she was three years old, she made her stage debut in Truman Capote's The Grass Harp.

Now decades later, she stars as one of Capote's loyal friends in the new Ryan Murphy series,

Feud, Capote versus the Swans.

Said in the 1970s, the series is about the late novelist screenwriter and actor Truman Capote and his high society friend group known as the swans composed of wealthy wives of successful men.

The group implodes after Capote turns the women's real lives into a thinly veiled work of fiction.

Ringwald plays Joanne Carson, ex-wife of talk show host Johnny Carson,

and one of Capote's most loyal friends with him until the very end of his life.

Molly Ringwald grew to fame representing Jen X Anks,

in 80s films like 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty and Pink.

In 2022, Ringwald starred in Ryan Murphy's Monster, the Jeffrey Dahmer story,

playing the murderer's stepmother. In addition to acting

Ringwald is a jazz musician author and translator of several books from French to

English. Molly Ringwald, welcome to Fresh Air.

Thank you for having me.

It's an honor.

In Capote versus the Swans, you play Joanne Carson, talk show host Johnny Carson's second wife and to set that up for everyone.

When Joanne divorced Johnny, she became an exile from the Hollywood elite,

which meant that she was not one of Truman Capote Swans, these High Society women he loved.

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