Two and a Half Men showrunner Chuck Lorre is becoming a member of forces with Charlie Sheen on a brand new mission almost a decade after their public feud made headlines.
Sheen is ready to star within the new playing comedy collection Bookie, starring comic Sebastian Manisalco. According to Lorre, the mission marked the primary time he and Sheen noticed one another in over 10 years.
“I used to be nervous, however nearly as quickly as we began speaking, I remembered, we had been buddies as soon as,” the showrunner informed Variety. “And that friendship simply out of the blue appeared to be there once more. I don’t wish to be too mawkish about it, but it surely was therapeutic.”
Lorre stated Sheen instantly got here to thoughts when he learn the script for Bookie. “It must be Charlie,” Lorre stated. “I keep in mind Charlie was very a lot engaged in sports activities betting and he would inform me tales about it on a regular basis. You know, when issues had been good.”
The showrunner solely had good issues to say about working with the actor once more. Sheen will probably be enjoying an A-lister with a playing downside on the present, a form of dramatized model of himself.
“He was additionally completely recreation to make enjoyable of himself,” Lorre stated of Sheen. “When he got here to the desk learn of that episode, I walked up, and we hugged. It was simply nice.”
Lorre continued, “He proceeded to kill it on the desk learn. His chops had been simply so finely tuned, as if we had not missed a beat. He’s enjoying a model of himself that has shadows of previous issues and he was high-quality with it.”
Sheen did, nevertheless, ask if they might steer away from “the drug-addled Charlie” within the script and alter that his character was in rehab. This would be the first time Lorre and Sheen have labored collectively for the reason that actor was fired from Two and a Half Men in 2011 and changed by Ashton Kutcher.
At the time, Sheen publicly insulted Lorre on a number of events throughout interviews, calling him “a bit of maggot” and utilizing antisemitic remarks.
In a 2021 interview, Sheen admitted that his conduct on the time was “desperately juvenile.”
“I feel it was medicine or the residual results of medication … and it was additionally an ocean of stress and a volcano of disdain. It was all self-generated, you recognize,” he admitted on the time, later including, “I used to be getting loaded and my mind wasn’t working proper.”
Speaking to Variety, Lorre stated he’s “gotten to this place the place it’s outdated information. I liked working with Charlie on Two and a Half Men. We did 170 episodes collectively earlier than all of it fell aside. And most of the time, we had fun. Assuming he’s in a very good place, I’m in a very good place.”
Bookie is ready to premiere on Nov. 30 on Max.
