Watch UK Trailer For Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

When we talk about ‘titans’ we always refer to the battles from Greek Mythology. In Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation titans will clash, titans of Literature Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Dogwoof have today sent us over the UK Trailer , Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s film chronicles their rivalry and close friendship.

Zachary Quinto voices Tennessee Williams and Jim Parsons voices Truman Capote in the film. A story of two of the greatest writers of the past century examined in a dialogue that stretches from their early days of friendship to their final, unsparing critiques of each other.

Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams — writers, celebrities, geniuses — catapulted to fame in the 1950s, sparking a friendship and rivalry spanning nearly 40 years until their deaths within a year of each other. Inextricably entwined, and fixtures of their age, they were creative powerhouses (and gay men) who dealt with success and its evanescence in vastly different ways.

In Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Love, Cecil, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) brings the two forces together in a unique and fascinating tête-à-tête, comparing and contrasting their trajectories through dueling voices — the writers’ own, culled from archival footage, and the voices of actors Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto (The Boys in the Band) portraying, respectively, Capote and Williams at various stages of their lives. Both created rich, imaginary worlds and characters (Blanche DuBois, Holly Golightly) that left indelible marks on the era — and both paid the price of colossal success and fame through alcoholism and periods of artistic stagnation.

Lisa Immordino Vreeland, whose growing body of work examines the working lives and social impact of 20th-century creative visionaries, adds two more remarkable subjects to her oeuvre, tumultuous compatriots who electrified the culture with words steeped in the nascent forces that shaped them.

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation will be released on Dogwoof on Demand and other platforms from 30th April in the UK & Ireland.

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