In his portrayal, Ferguson wants to find the balance between Capote’s larger-than-life personality and the tragic circumstances we see in Tru. Even in his darkest moments, Capote was “living very out loud” as a gay man, and Ferguson wants to celebrate that part of him. “I’m exploring him as a 50-year-old man who’s lived a very lovely life and gets to be openly gay,” Ferguson says. Ferguson, still best known for playing Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family, is very familiar with being gay in the public eye; he draws a few “don’t I know him?” looks in the Blue Box Café, even without his signature beard. Before Ferguson was married with children of his own, his portrayal of a gay partner and parent helped define those roles in the American imagination. “Fortunately, that version [of me] is someone that I really like and I’m really proud of, and it’s also pretty much just a shade of who I am,” he says. The popular vision of Capote was much darker, especially in the aftermath of the …