Yahoo News ‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Tom Hollander on ‘Capote vs. The Swans,’ Playing One of the “Evil Gays” on ‘White Lotus’ and That Time J. Law Recognized Him
Tom Hollander, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a brilliant British character actor who has distinguished himself on the stage and screens big and small, with the New York Times describing him as “vitally funny in dramatic roles [and] wrenchingly somber in comic ones.” Indeed, over the course of a career dating back 42 years, he has been a part of two SAG Award-winning casts, one for a film, 2001’s Gosford Park, and another for a TV series, 2023’s The White Lotus season two. He won a best supporting actor BAFTA TV Award for 2016’s The Night Manager. And he was nominated for a best actor in a play Tony Award for 2018’s Travesties.
Now, he is poised to land his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination, in the category of best actor in a limited or anthology series or TV movie, for arguably the meatiest part he has ever been asked to play on screen, and the one for which he has received the most widespread acclaim: that of Truman Capote on the FX limited series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.
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Over the course of this episode, the 56-year-old reflects on his early start in the business (he was just 14 when he made his screen acting debut); his experiences on art house films like 2005’s Pride and Prejudice and 2009’s In the Loop versus big-studio productions like the 2006 and 2007 installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and 2015’s Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation; how he wound up cast as Capote 20 years after auditioning to play him in a film, and what the response to his performance in the limited series has meant to him; plus much more.
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