By The Deadline Team. Caplan says playing opposite Michael Sheen, who stars as Dr. Bill Masters, was clever casting on many levels. But I was so enamored with this woman, and her story, and who she was, that I knew it would be such a privilege and an honor to get to play her. Part of who she was, was this unbelievably comfortable-in-her-own-sexuality type of woman in a time when that was not exactly the norm.

Showtime really has a talent for canceling shows in their prime. Check out some of the hottest, yet most realistic, scenes below. This scene is from early in Masters of Sex and manages to be sexy, but also intimate.

Cable series have a reputation for being sexy, but this new Showtime series has a built-in excuse for featuring so much sex: It's called Masters of Sex , and it's about the research that William Masters and Virginia Johnson did in the s that changed the way we think about sexuality. Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan play the pair, who began as research partners he was the doctor with the project, and she was the secretary-turned-assistant and eventually became man and wife. Sheen, Caplan, and other costars and showrunners came to the TCA to talk about their provocative series which premieres Sept. Want to read about the funniest part of the panel? Sheen described all the raunchy ways he's had onscreen sex.