EXCLUSIVE: 'Satisfaction' Matt Passmore Speaks On Risking Your Marriage To Save It

Would you risk your marriage to save it? That's what leading man, Matt Passmore is doing in the hit USA provocative and romantic series, Satisfaction. The Australian actor spoke one on one with MStars News' reporter, Star Connor about the new season of the series and the risk he's taking to saving his marriage on the show.

USA Network's Satisfaction sparked major conversation about modern love and marriage in today’s world when it first aired. Currently the series is back for it's second season, as fans continue to follow Neil Truman (Matt Passmore) and his wife Grace, and the crazy choices they make to keep their relationship complete. In Satisfaction, Neil discovers that his wife has been seeing a male escort, then decides to become one himself, giving him a new perspective on his life and what motivates women, while Grace struggles with whether her needs are being met and if her marriage is worth saving.

Passmore (who most recently starred in A&E's hit show The Glades for four seasons) isn't holding back on his character or his real life relationship. Passmore also talked about how the show reflects our current perspectives of love and marriage, and what viewers can expect from Satisfaction's sexy second season.

Star Connor: What attracted you to become the character of Neil Truman?

Matt Passmore: "When I first read my script what looked out at me was this guy whose struggling along in life with the America dream and seemingly having it all and still being unhappy."

Passmore continued, "When he find out that his wife is seeing a male escort he doesn't just blow it out of the water he doesn't confront her that would probably destroy the whole marriage. He actually goes inside first and finds out, and starts asking questions and saying 'what's his part in the whole thing.'"

Passmore explains Both characters are trying to get to some kind of inner truth, and truth with each other. That as well as taking into account with the trappings of this modern world, I just thought was really interesting."

Star Connor: Why do you think your character decided to become a male escort after his wife was seeing one?

Matt Passmore: "I think there's this need in him to try to understand why [his wife is cheating with an escort] and coming out of that need for both of them it is a modern day love story. They do really want each other, and their greatest fear is to lose each other. It just so happens they are doing it in a unorthodox way."

Star Connor: This show hits home to a lot of marriages and relationships. Why do you think this catches the audiences attention so well?

Matt Passmore: "They are coming to a realization that it's not that they've just lost touch with each other, but they've lost touch with themselves."

Passmore adds, "Therefore they've lost touch with what they were bringing to the relationship. I think there's something really interesting in that because the contract we sign in a relationship is to be honest and truthful to yourself and if you can't do that then you're not bringing something truthful to the relationship."

Star Connor: When you became this male escort in your role, did you get an understanding to what your wife and women are wanting?

Matt Passmore: "That has been quite strange in the second season, because I've actually been engaged. We spend most of our lives trying to figure out what the secret is. I don't think there's any secret. One thing that this show points out is that every persons journey, in every relationships journey is different from other people that it's hard to say that here's the secret, 'it's just communication.'"

"I think it's the whole thing and how we deal with life, how honest we can be with each other, with ourselves and it's hard work. It's really interesting that all this Ashley Madison stuff has come out so this infidelity thing is something that we don't like to talk about in society but it is out there. I think that this show is peeling the the lid off that in a very entertaining way and also in an uncomfortable way," he said.

Star Connor: USA Network had commissioned a survey called the "Modern Love" report, timed to the launch of Satisfaction, which had some interesting findings. 82% of respondents said they had no tolerance for cheating, yet almost the same number. 81% said they would cheat if there were no consequences. Meanwhile, more than half of Gen X and Gen Y respondents felt that "monogamy is a social expectation, but not a biological reality," and 55% agree that "pretty much everyone is unfaithful at least once in their lives."  What do you think this says about our changing attitudes about love? Are these depressing statistics?

Matt Passmore: "Personally it doesn't surprise me. I think relationships are hard. When something or someone comes into your life it's a lot easier to get kind of wrapped up in that new energy. I think we spend most of the time in society trying not to look at ourselves. We don't want to know the truth. We don't want to know the darkness. I think the show really touches on that. It's uncomfortable to go down into places that we may not like about ourselves, but what's really uncomfortable is revealing that to our partner. That's where the work comes into it."

Check out more of Matt's interview below, and don't forget to check out a new episode of Satisfaction each and every Friday night on USA's Network 10/9c.