Jon Cryer isn’t feeling a Two and a Half Males reboot. Like, in any respect. And it is largely because of Charlie Sheen.
Cryer joined The View on Friday to speak about his new sitcom, Prolonged Household, when the dialog ultimately turned to the hit CBS sitcom on which he starred for eight seasons as Sheen’s neurotic brother, Alan Harper, earlier than Sheen was fired in 2011.
Panelist Sara Hines questioned if there may be an opportunity for a reboot, provided that the sequence creator, Chuck Lorre, rekindled his friendship with Sheen almost a decade after their fallout. Cryer, who earned two Primetime Emmys for his portrayal of Alan, reiterated that he has not spoken to Sheen in years.
“Yeah, I don’t know how that happens,” he mentioned. “Charlie is doing a lot better now, which is wonderful. He and I have not spoken in a few years, but he’s doing a lot better, which obviously I’m very happy about.”
Cryer then referred to Lorre as a “legendary producer” earlier than providing his clarification as to why he doesn’t see himself on a Two and a Half Males reboot.
“One of the hardest things for [Lorre] when Two and a Half Men fell apart the way that it did was that he really felt like he was friends with Charlie. And that he lost that was really heartbreaking for him,” Cryer defined. “So, that they have reconciled is really lovely. The thing for me is, when Two and a Half Men was happening, Charlie was the highest-paid actor in television, probably ever. There has been nobody that has surpassed the enormous amount of money he was making.”
Sheen was reportedly banking a whopping $1.8 million per episode.
“And yet, he blew it up,” Cryer continued. “So, you kind of have to think — I love him. I wish him the best. He should live in good health for the rest of his life, but I don’t want to get in business with him for any length of time.”
Panelist Ana Navarro then recommended, what in the event that they had been getting paid the identical?
“Yeah, there you go,” he quipped.
Sheen’s very public meltdown halted manufacturing of the hit CBS comedy earlier than the remaining episodes of season 8 had been cancelled. Sheen, who performed the playboy Charlie Harper, was killed off within the season 9 premiere, which later launched Ashton Kutcher as the brand new protagonist.
Sheen finally went to rehab, however not earlier than firing again at Lorre with publicly disparaging feedback — like calling him a “little maggot,” and a “stupid, stupid man.” They’ve since quashed their beef, a lot in order that they reunited on Lorre’s newest TV venture, the HBO comedy Bookie, starring comic Sebastian Maniscalco. Sheen seems on the sequence as an exaggerated model of himself.
Again in November, Lorre shared with ET how the reconciliation got here to be.
“I was hopeful that Charlie was in a good place and up for it,” Lorre mentioned of reaching out to Sheen, saying that he wasn’t afraid of making an attempt to reconcile with the actor after a lot time had handed. “I called his agent… they put me in touch with Charlie, and I said, ‘Here’s a funny idea.'”
“He couldn’t have been more gracious and enthusiastic and generous about the whole thing,” he continued. “We talked on the phone for probably and hour that first time, and I sent him the script — ’cause I’m asking him to play himself, a fictional version of himself, and I wanted to be respectful that it was something he’d be comfortable with.”
The next month, Cryer reacted to Sheen and Lorre making up.
“He and Charlie were very, very close for the first few years of Two and a Half Men and that they’ve managed to reconcile is really lovely,” Cryer instructed ET. “I have not spoken to Charlie. I don’t know that he knows my number anymore.”
On the time, Cryer expressed to ET an openness about reprising his position as Alan, and that he was “not going to rule anything out.”
Practically two months later, Cryer’s singing a really totally different tune.
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