Truman capote actors are dumb

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.” — Quote by Truman Capote.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

Truman Capote, after a lifetime in Hollywood, once explained that all the great actors are always dumb in real life.

Watch Truman Capote Explain Why Great Actors, Like De Nero, Are Always Dumb:

CAPOTE: By “all my comments on actors” she means that I once said that I thought most actors are stupid and still do.

Truman Capote, after a lifetime in Hollywood, once explained that all the great actors are always dumb in real life.!

New Again: Truman Capote

ABOVE: TRUMAN CAPOTE, AT HOME AT THE UNITED NATIONS PLAZA IN THE EARLY ’70S.

PHOTOGRAPH BY HORST.

In New Again, we highlight a piece from Interview’s past that resonates with the present.

InGame of Thrones, Emilia Clarke plays Daenerys Targaryen—a silver-haired, displaced queen, clad in leather and dust and followed by a rag-tag army of shirtless men and bedraggled women.

Before Thrones returns at the end of the month, Clarke will make her Broadway debut in a new revival of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Clarke stars as Holly Golightly; clearly a call girl in Truman Capote’s original 1958 novella, and not so clearly a call girl in the 1961 Audrey Hepburn film.

Truman Capote—or Truman Streckfus Persons—was a great friend of Andy Warhol and Interview until his death in 1984.

As yet another adaptation of his most famous story brings him back into the public consciousness, we decided to revisit the below