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Faces & Places: Man of the Hour
SEAN PATRICK FLANERY He Lost The Girl Who Got Him Into Acting, But Gained A TV Show
AGE: 34
HOMETOWN: Houston, where his father, Paul, sells medical supplies, and his mother, Genie, is a real-estate agent.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Splits his time between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where hes filming the new UPN series The Strip in which he plays a cop who takes on shady side jobs. Flanery calls it 48 Hours meets Lethal Weapon.
THE NEED FOR SPEED: As a kid, I wanted to be a rocket when I grew up. When I learned you couldnt do that, I wanted to be a speed racer. A few years ago, I did some celeb car races, and now Im addicted. Its not an adrenaline rush like bungee jumping. With racing, youre at your own mercy.
RESUME: Starred in TVs The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles from 1992 to 1993 as the famous budding archaeologist (I worked with George Lucas and traveled to 33 different countries. It was a perfect job.) and as the title character, a sweet-tempered misfit, in the 1995 drama Powder.
HIS LATEST MOVIE: Flanery plays an attorney who defends his best friend when a night on the town goes awry, in this months Body Shots. Its In The Company of Men and women. Its a fly-on-the-wall perspective on sex and relationships.
ON LOVE: Ive read a lot about love. It seems to be an entrancing experience. One day Id like to fall in a big pool of it.
ON DISCOVERING ACTING: I saw the most gorgeous specimen of femininity leaving the drama department at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. So I ditched an English class and signed up. I fell in love with acting and never spoke to her.
SIN CITY: Las Vegas is interesting, if not a moral place, says Flanery
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