(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Cybill Shepherd would rather play Tarzan than Jane.

The outspoken actress loves to defy gender stereotypes and has been that way since she was a little girl. If she'd been asked to appear in a movie involving jungle hero Tarzan, she would have rather portrayed the muscular hunk than his partner Jane.

"I never wanted to play Jane, I wanted to be Tarzan," she told Empire magazine. "I used to be able to do his call and beat my chest. I need to do it by myself to get it back into my body."

Cybill must have Tarzan on the brain, as she also revealed that her first movie crush was the most memorable actor to play the character, Johnny Weissmuller. "I like thinking of him in that little loincloth. Mmm," she joked.

It's not the first time Cybill has spoken about her wish for playing Tarzan. She once admitted he was a character she'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

"I didn`t want to vacuum the tree house. I wanted to swing from the vines," she said. (C) Cover Media