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apologize. And then she went, 'Good. Let's do it again.' And that was it. I've seen Reba mad, yelling. It was awesome. I take pride that it was me that did it. She's a rock star." Cutting his teeth on what would become a hit TV show, and coming out relatively unscathed is no small feat. "I was in my 20s. I had a little bit of fame. Some money in my pocket. Single. It coulda gotten bad, but I made it through. I wasn't that guy who had my shit figured out, but it was a good time." After Reba ended in 2007 (TV Land and Freeform continue to air reruns of the popular sitcom), Steve appeared in a string of TV series, including Sons of Anarchy, and rom-coms in which he played Kate Hudson's love interest: Bride Wars and Something Borrowed. How did that happen? "I dunno. I dunno. We played well together. The first movie [Bride Wars], she produced. I was pretty intimidated because she was producing and she's a strong alpha female. And then Something Borrowed, I just got cast and she happened to be with me." Last year, author Emily Giffin told me in an interview that they had a wonderful, funny script for Something Blue (the follow-up to Something Borrowed) and plan to be in production soon. Will you reprise your role as Marcus? "I don't know what's going on with that. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." This July, Steve turned 40, and as his Reba character, Van, prophesied —"So that's what's considered good-looking?" he says about James Denton, who portrayed Reba's love interest. "Wait till I'm 60!" —, his looks only improve with age. The clean-cut, boy-next-door look definitely worked for Steve in the past, but this overpowering-build paired with his goatee and mustache sitch trumps the former any day —if you ask me. Which begs the question: Why hasn't Hollywood tapped this ruggedly handsome, hulking man for their action flicks? This is the question on everyone's mind, including Steve's and his peers'. "These are the pros and cons of being on a show. You are not available for things you're right for and sometimes you're available for things you don't really want to do." Not only is he built for this genre, he's ready for it. Action-comedies —think 48 HRS., Lethal Weapon, Die Hard—are the goal. Happy to follow in Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone's foot steps, Steve praises their underrated abilit y to take lines that could easily be considered chees y and own them. "Those things that Schwarzenegger did, when he threw a knife through a guy's chest and it stuck. 'Stick around.' That shit 's hard to do and not make it look completely corny. He sold it. If you see another guy do it, you're like, 'Oh God, that 's so awk ward. What are you doing with your nostrils, peeking around the corner?'" he exclaims in mock horror. With the current ac tion -film landscape favoring Aussies and Brit s, namely Tom Hardy, Steve point s out, "You need a red, white, and blue, true American… I think that I could do some physical stuf f and also have the ba- dum-bump." He flashes a disarming smile. "Some direc tors don't even look at ac tors who are on T V shows, because the scheduling is too hard — unless you're Dwayne [Johnson]. Dwayne can do any thing. Some of the stuf f he's done, I would like to do, but I just feel like I'm so Fan Love "Chicago has a lot of love, and I love Chicago [Shameless is set in the South Side]. We stay downtown. It's usually girls, women, but when guys are fanboying… I don't relate to it. When girls do it, I get it. But some guy coming over to me and putting his hands on my neck. Bro, I don't know you. No offense. Very friendly fans. I've been offered sexual things. I've been proposed to. It's all normal, not for me, it's for the idea. A cute one was a mom and daughter. She was like, 'That's Kev from Shameless,' and I heard them say it. They were like, 'Are you Steve Howey?' And I'm like, 'Yeah, how are you?' And she's like, 'I'm sorry, I don't know you. Oh my God, are you Van?' So they both fangirled out by two different shows. She didn't really know Reba and the other one didn't know Shameless, but they both were fans and I thought that was pretty cool." Why do you think Shameless is such a success? "I think it's refreshing to see an unapologetic view on how fucked up life is. It either makes you feel good about yourself, because you don't have a life like that or makes you feel better because you did have a life like that. And it's just fun to watch because so much is going on. It's an ensemble and I don't think there's any weak points. When you cut to a different scene, it's like a new movie," says Steve.