Me, Tarzan; You, Goldwyn

Actor/director Tony Goldwyn, who played the villain in Ghost, is providing the voice of the title character in Tarzan, the new Disney animated feature, reports CBS This Morning Co-Anchor Mark McEwen.

The feature, yet another version of Edgar Rice Burroughs' adventure classic, includes songs by Phil Collins. The story follows the life of an orphaned infant, raised by a family of gorillas and ultimately accepted as one of their own. As Tarzan matures into a young man with all the instincts of a jungle animal and the physical prowess of an athletic superstar, his life changes forever when he finally meets other humans, with whom he feels an immediate bond.

"In any event, it's great to be part of a Disney film, says Goldwyn. "It's really a wonderful filmÂ… The adults in the audience were as blown away as the kids."

What is it like for an actor to act only with his voice?

"It's very tricky," says Goldwyn. "At first, I felt totally disoriented. You're always alone. You never work with another actor. But what happens is, your imagination kind of kicks in. It ends up being a whole lot of funÂ…jumping around like an idiot, and [you] think, 'God, I must look so stupid. But I'm getting paid to do this.' It was really fun." (Actress Glenn Close provides the voice of his gorilla mother.)

Part of the reason Goldwyn took the job was for his two daughters. When he told his eldest daughter, Anna, that he was doing the voice of Tarzan, "she fell to her knees, and said, 'Thank you! Thank you!'"

Goldwyn recently made his film directing debut with A Walk on the Moon, a story that is set near Woodstock around the time of Neil Armstrong's historic first steps on the moon. When he ran across the script, Goldwyn recalls, he fell in love with it, although there was no role in it for him.

"I wanted to see it get madeÂ…and I said, 'I have to do it myself.' Dustin Hoffman dropped from the heavens and said, 'I'll produce it.'"

It had not been his intention to try his hand at directing, but Goldwyn says he liked it very much.

"When you direct, you just have your finger on all the buttonsÂ… It's your vision completely, so it's like playing every part."

At the moment, he is performing in a play titled The Song of the Lark, and he plans to spend the summer directing.

Goldwyn lives in Connecticut with his wife, production designer Jane Musky, and their two daughters, Anna, 8, and Tess, 4.