By his own account, he was madly in love with his wife —and had been for years and years.
“I fell in love with my wife when I was at university and I managed to persuade her to fall in love with me for about three months but then she ran away and married someone else,” he told British Vogue with a self-deprecating laugh in 2015. “But I’ve been in love with her since then and still am, even more so. What doing The Affair highlights for me is that I think I have a really good marriage, mainly because my wife is so cool and I adore her and we have all these kids.”
“The mistake people might make, if I may be so bold, is expecting so much of a marriage and hoping that there can be perfection,” he continued, “I think, really, what marriage is is two people helping each other to live the best lives they can. And that’s what happened with me and my missus. That’s why it works. She doesn’t get jealous, either. If she were doing the scenes I’m doing in The Affair, I would hate it.”
