TV show Scandal's Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) loves those bold sexual "Scandal" tweets,

Yaay!! The countdown has begun with just 8 days away before the air date of season 4 episode 10 of Scandal, the most tweeted about television show ever.
As most of these tweets concern Tony Goldwyn's philandering President Fitzgerald "Fitz" Grant and how good he looks having sex in the Oval Office, or in an electrical closet, or in the shower, he says he loves them. Even Rihanna has taken notice, recently Instagraming a photo of herself outside the White House with the caption: "Fitz, darling…".In his interview with Elle magazine he speaks about how his wife feels about these scenes and more.

Would you share an embarrassing story from your childhood involving a woman?

TONY GOLDWYN: [Laughs] The first time I kissed a girl, I was 10. My older brother and his friends were playing Spin the Bottle. After I watched our next-door neighbor maul a girl with his braces, finally the bottle pointed at me. This beautiful girl a few years older than me—we did that closed-mouth kiss you do when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

What's embarrassing about that?

I kept following her around asking if we were going to play the game again before the night was over. My brother finally locked me out of whatever room they were in. That was slightly humiliating. 

You were often typecast after Ghost. Did you have trouble convincing women you weren't a jerk?

Right when the movie came out I was doing a play in New York. I was at a restaurant, and I kept asking this waitress if we could be seated. She was really rude to me. She wouldn't take my order. I finally get my food, and she's staring at me as I'm eating my meal. She goes, "Excuse me, are you an actor? You're in that movie Ghost." I said, "Yes." She said, "I'm so sorry. I thought you were a guy that I had slept with who'd been horrible to me."

That's funny. Scandal fans tweet some seriously suggestive things at you. One read, "No vagina could be apolitical around you.

I love that one. I got one today: "Occupy my butthole." 

Wow, that's specific. You're often shirtless. And you previously appeared naked on stage in The Water's Edge. Have you always been so comfortable with nudity?

It's never comfortable. The Water's Edge was a personal challenge. I'd never been naked onstage. It's scary. 

And that was before camera phones….

I wouldn't do it now. Not with Twitter. It would become all about that. As an actor, we hang it out in a lot of ways. And I thought, If I'm too scared to do that, then what am I hiding? So much of what we do is about intimacy, and you just have to let it go. On Scandal, we're not really nude, but it's still pretty sexual, and it's always difficult to do. 

How does your wife feel about those scenes?

She works in the business. I've had sex scenes my whole career, and she's always more relaxed about it than I am. 

Fitz and Olivia Pope had sex in the Oval Office. What's the most surprising place you've had sex?

A snowbank in Colorado. 

That sounds cold.

It was cold. That was a high school story, although I think I probably repeated that one a couple of times. 

You had to get it right.

Yeah. Exactly. 

Do you and your wife argue politics? Or is that best avoided?

My wife and I are both of the same political stripes—she's more reactionary liberal than I am. She'll take any opportunity to create a little chaos. 

How so?

We live in a community in Connecticut that's quite Republican. We had a dinner party when we first moved there and invited all these nice people over. Right at the beginning she's like, "So, I'm betting we're the only Democrats in the room." Everyone got really uncomfortable, and about an hour later the fur was flying. But I love her for it. We have some raucous dinner parties as a result. 

Your grandfather produced classics such as Wuthering Heights and The Best Years of Our Lives. What did those movies teach you about women?

One of the things I guess that Sam Goldwyn did—he had only very strong women in his movies. Wuthering Heights and Bette Davis and The Little Foxes. I've only been interested in powerful women. I don't know if that's the reason. My mother was a really fascinating, strong, vibrant woman, and my wife is as well.

 Your parents split up when you were young. What did they teach you about marriage?

What not to do. [Laughs] Look, that's not true. My mother died 20 years ago, but the way my father talks about their early life—they had a very passionate relationship. And it's always a reminder to me to keep that in my marriage. We've been through our difficulties. But at the end of the day we've learned how to communicate. I have endless respect for her, so I'm never bored by my wife. 

You've taken your 24-year-old daughter, Anna, to events. She's often misidentified as your wife in photos. What does that say about Hollywood?

We joke about it. A few times early on, I'd say to people, "This is Anna," and they'd say, "Oh, how long have you been together?" And she's like, "I'm his daughter." It really upset her. 

Hollywood is a crazy place.

[Laughs] It sure is. I raised my kids in Connecticut for a good reason. 

You went to prep school in Colorado. Was it co-ed?

It went co-ed my second year—which was awesome and fun. Being in an all-boy school was awful for me because you had all these pent-up hormones and all the boys did was, frankly, drugs and beat each other up. So, being a ninth grader in high school, I was the one getting beat up. It just wasn't fun. But when girls came it was awesome. 

You come from a Hollywood dynasty. Were there famous actresses hanging around the house?

My parents kept us very, very sheltered from Hollywood. I think the first movie star I met was when I was about sixteen and it was Katharine Hepburn. I bumped into her at my grandparents' house. I had plenty of crushes on actresses—but just the way anybody else would. Not anyone I knew personally. 

You haven't aged a day since Ghost.

That's the comment I most often get. The other is when women come up to me and say, "I've finally forgiven you for Ghost now that you're playing President Fitzgerald Grant."

A character who also does dastardly things. But he didn't kill Patrick Swayze.

That's right. He only killed the Supreme Court Justice.

What has Shonda Rhimes taught you about women?

Shonda is all about being girly and the things that girls find fun—find hot, find silly—and at the same time, that doesn't take anything away from the fact that women are essentially superior to men. And, given a chance, vastly more powerful. If it weren't for being physically smaller, women would have dominated the Earth long ago. Shonda is this amazing combination of the post-modern woman because she's a genius, she's hilarious, she's charming and feminine and yet the smartest person in the room by a mile. She and the characters she creates are the most modern version of the American woman, so I feel really privileged to be trafficking with those amazing women.

Why do you think women respond so strongly to Scandal?

Shonda Rhimes has written characters that personify the modern American woman as a dominant, powerful figure who is as feminine and sexy and playful as women ever have been. 

I have my own theory. I think people want to believe in a love so strong that it could topple nations. 

You're so right. She creates these relationships—certainly with Liv and Fitz—with the possibility of the great love, and that's what we all crave in our life, you know?

You met your wife at the Williamstown Theater Festival when you were 21. From what I've heard, it's a free-love kind of place. One actor described it to me as "sex camp." 

It kind of is. But my free-love got limited because I met my wife while I was there. Put it this way: When one of my daughters wanted to go to Williamstown at seventeen, I was like, "You're going to wait a few years for that one." I knew what was going to be happening.

Do you have a favorite cinematic sex scene?

Don't Look Now with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.

That one's very raw. Doesn't she put her head in his armpit by accident?

I remember being so blown away by how real it was. And how it depicted intimacy between a man and a woman who really know each other because they're a married couple, and yet it was so hot. You really would think that they were f**king. Urban legend has it that they were, but I heard from the D.P. that they weren't. 

Fitz flew Olivia Pope to the dream house he built for her in Vermont. What's the most romantic thing you've done for your wife?

I've surprised her with trips, but really the thing that counts is the little stuff. It sounds unromantic to say but it really is the dumb, everyday considerations of taking care of each other in little ways that have the most impact.

How do you and your wife deal with spending so much time apart?

It's a profession of gypsies. We've always just made it work. We're also mutually supportive of each other's careers so it doesn't become a problem. Never in the thirty-some-years we've been together have either of us said, "I don't want you to do that because it's going to be hard for me." 

Credits: Elle Magazine