By now, Masters of Sex star Michael Sheen has gotten used to nudity and watching sex acts performed in front of him. I actually broke that barrier on the show. As researchers, Masters and Johnson observed many sex acts -- solo and with couples -- but also participated in the studies. Oddly enough, the conventional love scenes posed no problems for the cast, but the ones shot in the laboratory settings, where the characters are hooked up to machines to measure their physiological reactions, were a challenge. That's really difficult. Making the set as comfortable for these guests was of paramount importance.

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The star revealed how he has to 'turn that part of his brain off' while filming the hit show. Welsh star Michael Sheen claims he has mastered the art of not thinking about sex while surrounded by scantily-clad women on the set of his hit US TV drama Masters of Sex. The year-old is playing sex expert Dr William Masters in the critically-acclaimed second series of the show which has just opened across the Atlantic. I turn up on set and there are 15 naked women around. In he received a Golden Globe nomination for his role on the first series of the drama, the second series of which opens in Britain in August. He has now revealed how he expects to evolve the character over the next few seasons insisting that, despite his steely demeanour in the s, William Masters actually came to be known as a kind, friendly and gentle old man. People felt that he was, certainly early on in his life, a very cold, quite intimidating, quite frightening man. Because by the end of the life of Masters and Johnson, it was Johnson Virginia Johnson played by Lizzy Caplan who was seen as being sort of the difficult one and the rather frightening and intimidating one and Masters was seen as quite a friendly older man. I would pick her up and carry her to the front door, open the front door, put her outside and close the door. What's On.
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We live in a culture consumed by sex, and yet it is still rare to see realistic portrayals of female sexuality. Despite taking place in the s, Masters of Sex may be the most progressive show on TV when it comes to women and sex. Based on the real sex research of Virginia Johnson and William Masters, the show extensively explores the science of sexuality—and female sexuality especially. In an early episode, Virginia explains to William why a woman might fake an orgasm.
The actress, who made her film debut in hit comedy Mean Girls, stars in a new drama about the real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality, Dr William Masters and Virginia Johnson. They say Lizzy Caplan is 'adorkable'. It's a curious portmanteau that describes a new breed of acerbic women who have a passion for desserts and sarcasm; a Venn diagram of kooky, yet startlingly attractive brunettes that includes Zooey Deschanel and Katy Perry. Actor Caplan, now 31, made her film debut as an ostracised high-school goth in the hit comedy Mean Girls, later appearing as monster-bait in Cloverfield, and more recently as a sweary bridesmaid in Bachelorette. I hope that luck doesn't continue. Her new show, Masters of Sex, is a romp that she hopes will "run for years and years". In it, Caplan and Michael Sheen portray the real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality, Dr William Masters and Virginia Johnson, whose research sparked an American sexual revolution.