Sandy Kenyon talks with 'Scandal' star Tony Goldwyn

NEW YORK (WABC) -- He's played a villian, a cartoon Tarzan, and now, the President of the United States.

The runaway success of 'Scandal' has turned actor Tony Goldwyn into a TV star. If you know Goldwyn only for his role on 'Scandal', you may not realize he was born into Hollywood royalty.

In fact, the letters of the famed MGM studio stand for 'Metro Goldwyn Mayer', and Tony's father Sam distributed Spike Lee's first movie, all of which made the setting for our interview that much more appropriate.

His family is so much a part of Hollywood history, the Motion Picture Academy's new museum in L.A. seemed like the perfect place to catch up with Tony Goldwyn, to find out what life was like, after his 'Scandal-ous' success.

"Yeah, you know this is a unique experience. This is my first time being a regular on a series, and it's a wonderful thing," Goldwyn said.

Like the audience who watches his show, members of the cast do not know what's going to happen next, until each script is filmed.

"And I have the joy of experiencing that with my cast fellow cast members and we want the audience to experience that too," he said.

Tony told me there have been leaks but discipline is enforced most of the time by the creator of Scandal, Shonda Rimes. So when you ask Tony how long he's going to play the President of the United States:

"Well, I don't know the answer to that. Only Shonda does if she even knows now, but the way I look at it is, you know Presidents can only serve two terms in office so I've just entered my second term fairly recently, this past season so I'm looking at it as an

8 year kind of adventure," said Goldwyn.

The show's success means Goldwyn needs more than a baseball cap and sunglasses to stay anonymous these days.

"Airports are a challenge," he said. "The other day I was working out at the gym and three people came up, and I did have the baseball cap on and the headphones in my ear and said oh I'm sorry can we get a picture, you know and I was like 'really? At the gym? I don't know how good the picture will be but, O.K.'"

Don't get the idea he is complaining about the changes in his life since this show became a hit, because he isn't.

"I have to say it's a privilege to be involved in something where the people get so excited about," he said.

Tony adds that those are lucky problems to have as an actor. Spoken like a man who's known his share of ups and downs, in a career where he has never traded on his famous name.

He found early success opposite Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in 'Ghost', and spent years behind the camera as a director before fame finally came on TV.

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