What kind of wo man ?

                                              What kind of  wo man ?

MA: Dr. William Masters is a very complicated man. He was brilliant, wildly ambitious and incredibly successful. He had a career that any doctor would have envied but he decided to take on this subject. One of the things he's quoted as saying was that he wanted a Nobel Prize.
He never got the Nobel Prize for this work. And yet, it was really groundbreaking and remarkable. I think it always had a certain kind of prurient atmosphere around it. Even though what he was doing was remarkable and he approached it as a very serious scientist, at the end of the day people could always slightly dismiss it and say, 'Well, it's just about sex'. So I think that actually damaged him career-wise.

In the show, Dr William Masters has tremendous passion for his work but he lacks passion for his own wife.

MA: Dr William Masters is a very complicated character. He was very, very passionate about his work but we see in the pilot that he comes home and is less passionate with his wife. I think it's no mystery that he was drawn to the world of sexual study because he himself had some demons he was trying to sort out.

He came from an incredibly abusive background. He had a tyrannical father and he was a man who had had to put on a real suit of armour to just get up every day from the time wh sources