ONE WOULD think that a chiseled hunk who regularly pops up on those lists of “TV’s Sexiest Men” would have earned camera-hog status by now. But on this drizzly day in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood, Shemar Moore emerges from a black SUV on the set of “Criminal Minds” to utter just one scripted line.

Or three words, to be exact.

“How’s the mom?” he says to co-star Thomas Gibson, referring to a character at wit’s end following the abduction of her teen daughter.

Yes, just three measly words. Nice work if you can get it.

“And the Emmy goes to … ” Moore jokes as he ducks into a garage, where he hoists his T-shirt to allow a technician to remove a hidden mic, and in the process, provides a quick flash of his oft-photographed abs. Are those prolonged sighs we hear from the women in the crew?

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Actor Shemar Moore had an eight-year run as Malcolm Winters on the popular daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, as well as a supporting role in the feature film Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Today he stars on the CBS drama Criminal Minds as FBI Special Agent Derek Morgan. When he’s not enforcing the law on the small screen, Moore bikes to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, a disease that hits him close to home.

ABILITY Magazine’s Chet Cooper sat down with Moore for a chat in his Los Angeles home.

Chet Cooper: I understand you enjoy doing a little boxing.

Shemar Moore: Yeah. I haven’t done it lately, but I did it off and on for quite awhile. I love it. I can hit the stuffing out of the bags, because they don’t hit back, you know? It was just a cool way to handle cardio. But now I’ve gotten more into cycling, because I ride for my mother, who has MS. So I’ve done a hundred-mile fundraising bike ride with a bunch of guys I work with at Criminal Minds.

Cooper: So you stay pretty active, then.

Moore: Sure. The only sport I’m not all that good at, which shouldn’t admit, is basketball. I guess I’ve got white man’s disease because I’m half white.

Cooper: You can’t jump?

Moore: Oh, I can jump, I just don’t have much of a left hand. I can play a mean game of horse, though. But no, I’ve done every kind of sport. I love that stuff. Before Hollywood, I thought I was going to be a baseball player.

Then I got into cycling, just because I was doing mountain bike stuff, and I met some guys at the show and they told me I had a sissy bike. So now I’ve got a new bike and the whole kit. You’ve got to look fancy, right? As long as you’re connected to your bike, you look really cool, but if you’re not connected to your bike, you just look like a man in tights, which is not very cool.

Cooper: I was just in Ireland, where Lance Armstrong was doing the Tour de Ireland.

Moore: Oh yeah? I guess the guys I work with are like a level below Lance Armstrong. They do semi-pro racing and all that. Me, I’ve just got the fancy tights, I’ve got the fancy all-carbon-fiber bike. I look the part, but I’m just an actor riding a bike. So I act like I can ride.

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iF: Did the producers tell you what they felt you were bringing to the show that they felt they needed that they hadn’t had without you/Garcia?
VANGSNESS: I don’t know. At first, I thought it was just exposition. I can tell you that when me and Shemar [Moore, who plays Special Agent Derek Morgan] met, we instantly got along and instantly started cracking jokes and making fun of each other and busting each other’s chops.

iF: So the playfulness between Garcia and Morgan in the show came out of you playing on set?
VANGSNESS: Yeah, absolutely. But they wanted it that way. Penelope – her name was actually an homage to Moneypenny [from the Bond films]. She was [Morgan’s] Moneypenny. Coming from a theatre background, I get very invested in all about the character, so I think the fact that I love my job so much transcended [the producers’ initial concept of Garcia as a bit pat]. I don’t know. I fell in love with it so hard that maybe that’s what it was. It’s just nice to see something where someone really loves what they do.

IF: So the CRIMINAL MINDS actors areis fairly supportive of one another’s extracurricular work?
VANGSNESS: Oh, absolutely. They all come to my plays. Shemar comes to everything at least once.

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E!: How is Shemar Moore doing since his accident?
P.B.: Shemar’s doing really well! He’s got an interesting storyline coming up that I don’t think we can talk about, but it’s very interesting.
K.V.: You’ll see a lot of him.
P.B.: That sounds like he’s going to be naked. We should say it that way all the time.
K.V.: I know! That’s why I said it like that!
E!: Has he been hobbling around in a cast?
P.B.: He’s not in a cast. He had a flexible cast, like a compression sock, and then a lot of his stunts for a couple of episodes were done by his stand-in, Donnell. They shot those scenes from behind. Donnell worked really hard.
E!: So we’ll get the same amount of Derek Morgan action we’re used to?
P.B.: Yeah, but you’ll notice that Shemar will run into a scene and then turn his back to the camera—the real fans, they’ll know the difference.

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