Sean Patrick Flanery (left) and me.: Michael Doyle

Born in Lake Charles, La. and raised in Sugar Land, Sean Patrick Flannery graduated from Dulles High School and attended the University of St. Thomas, where he fell in love with acting.

I talked to him about personal safety (he has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu), his homecoming to Houston and his recently released movie, "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day".

29-95: When you come back to Houston, where do you go?
Sean Patrick Flanery: (without any hesitation) Luby’s. A close second is James Coney Island. I miss Luby’s. A lot.

29-95: There are no Luby’s in L.A.?
SPF: No. Nothing like it. I drive quite a bit. Sometimes I’ll take the 10 when I drive from L.A. and I know the first Luby’s is in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Coming back, it’s the last fucking Luby’s.

29-95: Growing up, Han Solo was my role model for bad-ass. Who was your bad-ass?
SPF: Steve McQueen. He’s fuckin’ bad-ass. Josie Wales. “Did I fire six shots or only five, punk?” Clint Eastwood. What fans are calling the Man-tage, all the “Duke-fuckin’-Wayne”, we wrote that collectively. It was something we were talking about on the set. The emasculation of men. Dudes have had their balls cut off. Metrosexuals killed the dude. You open the door for a chick now and she’s (snorts like a pig, disgusted), “I can get it myself.” It’s like, “Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.”

Those were the guys I looked up to. Those guys were dudes, man. The type of dude who would fuck shit up. I was watching CNN six months ago and there was this old man who was clipped by a car and fell down in the street. There were people walking by looking. “Oh, shit. He’s in the street.” Nobody went out to help this guy for 11 minutes and thirty something seconds. How the fuck does that happen? Seriously? How the fuck does that happen? These dudes are walking by, “Oh, shit. He’s fuckin’ in the street. Fuck.” And they just keep walking. What the fuck happened to society?

Fuckin’ Steve McQueen, Charlie Bronson, would fuckin’ pick the guy up. Make sure he was ok. They would fuckin’ kick a car if it didn’t stop.Michael Doyle

29-95: They’d have shot the person.
SPF: They would! “Mother fucker! That could have been my dad.” Those guys are my heroes. Guys that are dudes, man. I’m not ashamed of being a dude. Now it’s so politically incorrect to be a fucking dude. Fuck that! I am a dude. I love women for being different from me. God bless them. I don’t want a woman that’s a dude. God bless ‘em. I love opening a door for a woman. I love it when a woman cooks me a meal. What’s fucking wrong with that? What the fuck is wrong with it?

Rhetorical question, of course.

29-95: What kind of a gun do you own?
SPF: A Beretta. I’m not a gun fanatic. My grandaddy was the deputy Sheriff of Lake Charles, Louisiana. It was funny growing up. I would go over there and he would give me gifts like a knife that was confiscated. It still had blood on it. I’ve got one of my granddaddy’s old revolvers and I have a Beretta 9. It’s in a quick key code safe. It’s been out three times in 12 years.

Another thing, I’ve studied martial arts my whole life. I get in less fights than any dude I know. Doesn’t mean that I’m a violent cat. I know that if it’s one on one and he doesn’t have a weapon 99.9% of the time he is going to be unconscious. I can walk around knowing that for a fact. It makes me feel good. It doesn’t make me be a dick to anybody. Just quite the opposite. If a guy is being an ass, “Let’s not get emotional about it. I’m sorry.”

29-95: How was it handling two Desert Eagles [in "Boondock Saints II"]?
SPF: Man, those things were heavy. Doing the prayer, after 15 takes, I want to look macho but they were so big and heavy. They’re cannons. They’re fuckin’ cannons. They are the most inefficient weapon known to man. They sorta shoot straight. They pack a wallop, but you can’t conceal it. At that point, have a rifle.

They look BAD-fuckin-ASS!

29-95: With Hollywood remaking everything, if you had your choice to be any character, in what would you want to play?
SPF:Speed Racer, but they fucked that up. What was that? I don’t even know what that was. I still think that could be done really, really cool.

There’s so much CGI and cartoony crap now. I don’t like that stuff. I’m into story. Characters and real story. I don’t need special effects. Some of my favorite stuff never actually showed you the horrific moment. They implied it or they showed you the aftermath. I hate all the new stuff. Regurgitating things with less implication, less background, more flashy green screen crap. I don’t care.

Boondock Saints II is now showing at these theaters.