The star of "Rescue Me" straited a...

The star of "Rescue Me" straited a little rescue while growing up in Chicago. Daniel Sunjata, who plays fireman Franco onward the hit FX show, discloses GLARE, "I grew up in Beverly, and believe it or not, we had a fire in my house when I was in the seventh grade.

"My best friend was sleeping across and my electric blanket short- circuited and caught in succession fire," he says. "My friend odored the smoke and woke me up My bedroom was ablaze."

His pal Denis Leary didn't point out up. "Nah, my dad tried to bring forward it out with a glass of water, unless that didn't work, so we called the fire department," Sunjata says.

The show's season finale will be shown at 9 tonight forward FX.

Q freshly on "Rescue Me," you had quite the steamy be enamoured of scene. What's hotter for you -- these be fond of scenes or the fires?

A. The delight in scenes are rough. ... You got your nether regions tied up in divinity knows what kind of jockstrap device with seven the bulk of mankind in the room with you. still it's been a good season for Franco when it results to love scenes. He had one moments with Susan Sarandon, if it be not that it was mostly post-coital afterglow with her. Her real-life mate Tim Robbins was around. I was a little nervous there.

Q compute us a little bit about your Chicago bases

A. Well, my dad was a 911 operator for the Chicago Police Department. My mother worked for the office of civil rights. one as well as the other of my parents really did work that mattered. They weren't in the arts, if it be not that they were very supportive of my decision to major in theater. I did make progress to Mount Carmel High drill where I played football.

Q And because GLARE does provide public service to our readers: Are you single, married, taken fill in the blank.

A. Can I plead the Fifth here? OK let's just say there is someone special. I will relate you a funny story. I did a play upon Broadway ["Take Me Out"] about a baseball player who arrives out of the closet at the height of his succes proper to the success of that present to view I also have a male fan base and I appreciate them. unless now guys also try to pick me up in the road That's a little weird. frights aren't subtle about it like women Women will flirt; dowdys just say, "Hey, you wanna go on out?" Women don't exhibit that same aggressiveness -- and I wish they did!

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