"I mean, I deliberation women should beryllium much indulgent of affairs," Dominic West told the Evening Standard successful March 2016. "I truly do. It's daft to footwear idiosyncratic retired implicit a fling. Isn't it? Everyone should crook a unsighted oculus to men's behaviour betwixt the ages of 40 and 50. Let it each stroke over...Milk and sugar?"

To beryllium fair, the tea-drinking interviewer noted that she couldn't beryllium definite if helium was being facetious oregon not, arsenic helium easy could person been poking amusive at his tortured but remarkably self-centered, self-righteous quality connected the The Affair. And possibly astatine his younger self. (He did not attraction to clarify erstwhile The Australian broached the topic some months later.)  

He archetypal had a daughter, Martha, successful 1998 with his then-girlfriend Polly Astor, whom, helium has acknowledged, helium treated alternatively shabbily portion helium was disconnected successful the U.S. making The Wire.

"That got a batch of things retired of my system—hopefully," helium told the Standard. "And present I conscionable enactment it. There are a batch of enactment scenes successful The Affair. If Catherine was successful thing similar that I would not beryllium happy. But she's OK with it. She's cool."

Talking to the Standard's ES Magazine in 2017, helium was asked if arousal ever occurs connected acceptable shooting those intimate scenes, and helium amiably replied, "Of course."

But, helium continued, "It's tied down, truthful to speak. Also I deliberation actresses don't caput erstwhile it happens, successful information they rather similar it. Everyone likes to beryllium thought of arsenic attractive."And helium included himself successful that lot.

West said helium was rather flattered by the renewed attraction helium was getting from The Affair, calling it "wonderful." He added, "It's The Affair of course, I won't instrumentality the credit. The breadth of radical who are into it is staggering. We were filming successful New York precocious and this clump of doddery 70-year-olds streamed past america and 1 of them shouted, 'Keep it up!' It's astonishing what the older procreation get up to successful those nursing homes nowadays with Viagra and a spot of soiled telly. If I'm relieving the boredom, I'm gladsome I tin assistance out."

West besides antecedently shared immoderate much sober thoughts connected the taxable and wherefore The Affair was connecting with viewers. (And, successful hindsight, to wherefore photos that suggest idiosyncratic is cheating tin beryllium truthful explosive.)

"It's specified an emotive issue, affairs and adultery," helium told the Evening Standard in 2015. "People find it instantly absorbing erstwhile radical speech astir adultery and affairs. Part of it is simply a batch of radical consciousness precise powerfully however incorrect it is and what a betrayal it is and however it's astir apt the worst happening that happens to immoderate people.

"And then," helium continued, "I deliberation a batch of different radical conscionable privation that they'd done it. Or they're jealous or, I don't know, reasoning if lone they could get retired of that bloody loveless marriage."

He loved playing Noah, a "total d--k," West said, due to the fact that he's specified a fascinating character, a hubby and begetter who blows past what's expected of him to fulfill his ain desires and tries to rationalize that he's doing the close thing.

"You're a man, you're expected to look aft your woman and family. You're not expected to wantonness them," West explained. "And of course, if you're divorcing idiosyncratic you deliberation their behaviour is unacceptable and they bash things that are, you know, appalling, which that idiosyncratic doesn't comprehend astatine all."

He added, "So that's what's truly amusive due to the fact that you are fundamentally playing 2 antithetic characters oregon respective antithetic characters. I don't attraction what a d--k helium is—I conscionable enactment it each successful perspective."

He took the occupation successful portion due to the fact that it filmed successful the summer, allowing him to bring his full household to America with him.

"It's the astir important origin successful my determination astir work," helium told The Australian successful 2016. "This twelvemonth I'll bash The Affair and my household volition travel retired for the summertime and autumn half-term, past I'll beryllium astatine location for the remainder of the year. It's each precise cautiously thought retired due to the fact that they are astatine an property present wherever I don't privation to miss immoderate of it. It's the astir important happening successful my beingness astatine the moment."

At the aforesaid time, he's good if his household doesn't really ticker immoderate of it afterward.

"It's embarrassing," helium told Ireland's Independent successful aboriginal 2016 of his role. "I don't person parents, but I've got 5 sisters and a member and they haven't watched it. My sisters were saying, 'Yes, we heard it's good. We heard you bash definite things determination and we decided not to ticker it.' 

"Maybe they person watched a fewer but my woman wisely hasn't," helium added. "I mean, it's not thing I'd similar to ticker her doing."

The histrion has besides praised his familly, calling FitzGerald a "wonderful woman" from an "amazing family," his precocious father-in-law, Desmond FitzGerald, having been the 29th Knight of Glin.

"They person an astonishing past and that's thing I treasure precise much," West said. "I find it precise romanticist and appealing and I anticipation to bash immoderate I tin to proceed that history."

By his ain account, helium was madly successful emotion with his wife —and had been for years and years.

"I fell successful emotion with my woman erstwhile I was astatine assemblage and I managed to transportation her to autumn successful emotion with maine for astir 3 months but past she ran distant and joined idiosyncratic else," helium told British Vogue with a self-deprecating laughter successful 2015. "But I've been successful emotion with her since past and inactive am, adjacent much so. What doing The Affair highlights for maine is that I deliberation I person a truly bully marriage, chiefly due to the fact that my woman is truthful chill and I adore her and we person each these kids."

"The mistake radical mightiness make, if I whitethorn beryllium truthful bold, is expecting truthful overmuch of a matrimony and hoping that determination tin beryllium perfection," helium continued, "I think, really, what matrimony is is 2 radical helping each different to unrecorded the champion lives they can. And that's what happened with maine and my missus. That's wherefore it works. She doesn't get jealous, either. If she were doing the scenes I'm doing successful The Affair, I would hatred it."