Tony Goldwyn 'Went Bright Red' Over 'Scandal' Phone Sex Scene
Actor says recent phone sex scene was the raciest he's done on show.
— -- As Olivia Pope's secret lover on "Scandal," Tony Goldwyn has shot some pretty steamy love scenes with co-star Kerry Washington.
But even he was "embarrassed" by an episode this season, in which his character, President Fitzgerald Grant, tells Olivia over the phone all the naughty things he plans to do to her.
"It really took me by surprise," the "Ghost" actor, 54, told the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" airing today. "Of course, as you know, on 'Scandal' we never get the scripts until we all sit down together, usually the day before shooting, and read them out loud together.
"So I'm reading this script totally blind, and I get to this scene," he continued. "And it was really hot! And pretty out there---I could not believe they aired that on ABC."
It was so hot that Goldwyn found himself blushing as he read the scene in front of his co-stars.
"I went bright red in the table read," he told DeGeneres.
"Doing phone sex was actually in a way harder than doing a regular sex scene," he admitted to DeGeneres. "Because a regular sex scene, it's all so weird and ridiculous, and you have this other person that you're with. But for [the phone sex scene], it was me, alone on the phone, actually having phone sex with someone, and just the crew watching me!"
He recalled that one crew member, an assistant camera operator named Emily, was just a couple feet away as the scene was being shot.
"She's sitting right next to me, kind of looking at me," he said, laughing, "and I was like, 'Emily, I'm really embarrassed.'"