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Lizzy Caplan on Mastering Sex

 

It’s been a breakout year for the actress, who earned her first-ever Emmy nomination for her dramatic role in the critically acclaimed Showtime series,Masters of Sex.

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We interviewed Caplan on the Los Angeles set of the 1950s drama, where she told us the Emmy nomination came as “a total and utter surprise.” Since she wasn’t expecting to win Monday night [the Best Actress in a Drama Emmy instead went to  for The Good Wife], Caplan wasn’t worried much about a speech, but the dress, well, that was another matter.

Finding the right Emmy gown to play up her willowy frame was “a committee effort,” Caplan said, adding, “It’s apparently a very big deal.”

Well, they found a winner: The black  Atelier gown, with sexy side cutouts, a long white train and glamorous old Hollywood feel, landed Caplan at the top of everyone’s Best Dressed List on Emmy night.

“People kind of do take me more seriously now that I’m doing drama,” Caplan said of how Masters has raised her profile since her Mean Girls days.

Caplan at this year's TCA-Showtime event. 

“I don’t take myself as seriously,” Caplan continued, “I’m still figuring out what it means to be a dramatic actress — I still feel like a fraud and I’m not sure if that feeling ever goes away. [But] I’m certainly being taken more seriously when it comes to being up for other dramatic roles, which is a concept that seemed completely foreign to me just a few years ago.”

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Caplan, 32, has bee

n steadily building her career for more than a decade. She made her film debut in 2004’s teen classic Mean Girlsplaying mouthy high-school outcast Janis Ian; by 2012 she was still playing the snarky sidekick in films likeBachelorette. Notable-but-brief TV roles of the sassy-and-sexy variety followed in between on such shows as HBO’s True Blood, Starz’s Party Downand Fox’s New Girl.

But it was when she was cast as Virginia Johnson, a sexually enlightened single mother who helped pioneer the groundbreaking Masters and Johnson sex studies [Michael Sheen stars as William Masters], that Caplan grew up, so to speak, on screen.

Currently airing its second season, and just renewed for a third, Masters of Sex has been a blessing and a bit of a curse for Caplan: Her professional life is thriving, but the demands of the job, in turn, haven’t left much time for a social life.

“I don’t do anything in my life,” Caplan laughed. “I’m really not kidding. I don’t do anything in my personal life except come here [to the set]. I’m starting to go a little insane. It’s all about Virginia having sex.”

Read on for more of Bio’s Masters of Sex chat with Lizzy Caplan…

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Michael Sheen and Caplan in a scene from the second season of Showtime's 'Masters of Sex.' (Photo: Showtime) 

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