FIRST LOOK: Susan Sarandon, 70, is a dead ringer for Bette Davis as she's seen on set of new series Feud about the icon's battle with Joan Crawford

By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com

Published: 14:32 EST, 18 November 2016 | Updated: 16:30 EST, 18 November 2016

Susan Sarandon is playing Hollywood movie icon Bette Davis in a the Ryan Murphy series Feud opposite Jessica Lange's Joan Crawford.

And on Friday the 70-year-old Oscar winner was seen in character as the legendary silver screen powerhouse for the first time.

With her fuzzy green cardigan, short curled red locks and heavy mauve lipstick, the New York native looked very similar to Davis.

In character: Susan Sarandon was seen dressed up as Bette David on the set of FX's Feud in LA

A mjor Hollywood star: The beauty appeared in dozens of films such as Now Voyager and All About Eve. Here she is seen in 1942

Sarandon also had an orange print house dress with a wife collar and a pair of Tom's shoes that must have been temporary because shoes like were not in fashion in Bette's day.

Susan was on the LA set of the project and was seen with an umbrella handler.

The feud took place between David and Crawford over decades and had to do with jealousy over movie roles and accolades. By the time they made What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1962, they were at each other's throats.

Dead ringer? With her fuzzy green cardigan, short curled red locks and heavy mauve lipstick, the New York native looked very similar to Davis

Dresses to impress... film historians: Sarandon also had an orange print house dress with a wife collar and a pair of Tom's shoes that must have been temporary because shoes like were not in fashion in Bette's day

The film was a huge success, however, and received five Academy Awards nominations.

This is Murphy's third anthology after American Horror Story and American Crime Story.

It has been set up at FX, which gave the series an eight-episode order, according to Deadline.

Big stuff: The series will come out in 2017. Ryan Murphy is overseeing and Brad Pitt is a producer with Plan B

She's a VIP: Susan was on the LA set of the project and was seen with an umbrella handler

Brad Pitt is executive producing alongside Murphy.

Also in the cast are Alfred Molina, Stanley Tucci, Judy Davis and Dominic Burgess.  

Molina will play the film’s director Robert Aldrich, Tucci will portray studio titan Jack Warner, Davis will play gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and Dominic Burgess will be Crawford and Davis’ co-star Victor Buono.    

Murphy and Lange most recently worked together on the 2016 Broadway revival of Long Day’s Journey Into Night/

No love here: Davis feuded with Joan Crawford who she made What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1962 with

Here is the new Ms Crawford: Jessica Lange, seen in June, will play Joan

Feud will come out in 2017. 

Also this week Susan and Debra Messing kept their own feud about the Presidential Election alive.

The Twitter war has been going on since March.  

Messing is a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and Sarandon is a fan of Bernie Sanders.

In the early years: Crawford wearing a long, belted coat with a fur collar and a beret in 1932

At the height of her career: Davis wearing a silk brocade, standing beside a mirror, wearing a collared blouse and gown and holding a purse in 1935

The Will & Grace star, 48, was not happy when Susan said in an interview Donald Trump would make a better president than Clinton.

Sarandon later backtracked.

On Wednesday Debra wrote, 'She encouraged ppl to vote for Trump over HRC on a news interview. Said she was more "dangerous." She needs to be held accountable.'

Messing also didn't like it when Susan said: 'Reach out in dialogue to those who voted 4 [Trump]. We can’t afford a blanket judgment of them. We need allies in that camp.'

The TV star then went on a Twitter rant: 'JESUS CHRIST. NOW she wants to give racist, islamophobic, homophobic, sexist, mysogynists a chance! ‘Pure' 4 Bernie. F--K everyone else.'

Susan has a feud of her own! The star and Debra Messing, seen in 2005, have been fighting over the Presidential Election. Messing is a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and Sarandon is a fan of Bernie Sanders

 

 

 

  

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