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Bette Davis vs Joan Craw­ford dra­ma Feud gets a sen­sa­tion­al trailer

15 Feb 2017

Words by Josh Hall

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Jes­si­ca Lange and Susan Saran­don play the war­ring Hol­ly­wood icons in this FX drama.

The bit­ter rift that opened between Bette Davis and Joan Craw­ford on the set of the 1962 movie What­ev­er Hap­pened to Baby Jane? is the stuff of Hol­ly­wood leg­end. Now, direc­tor Ryan Mur­phy, the man behind last year’s trashy but end­less­ly com­pelling The Peo­ple v OJ Simp­son, has reignit­ed inter­est in this very pub­lic spat with his apt­ly-titled new series, Feud.

The show, which is airs 5 March on FX, stars Jes­si­ca Lange as Craw­ford and Susan Saran­don in the role of Davis – a dream-cast­ing sce­nario that looks to have paid off judg­ing by this first offi­cial trail­er. Although their rival­ry was infa­mous at the time, known one real­ly knows how Craw­ford and Davis real­ly behaved towards one anoth­er once the cam­eras had stopped rolling. So it will be fun to see just how their mutu­al dis­dain plays out in what looks to be a feisty-look­ing peri­od drama.

Per­haps more per­ti­nent­ly, how­ev­er, Mur­phy has stat­ed that his main inten­tion was to explore the idea of being an age­ing screen icon, both then and now.

Feud co-stars Kathy Bates, Sarah Paul­son, Cather­ine Zeta-Jones, Stan­ley Tuc­ci and Alfred Moli­na, mak­ing it one of the most impres­sive­ly cast, not to men­tion the­mat­i­cal­ly rich, TV events of 2017. Watch the trail­er above and let us know your thoughts @LWLies

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