Jon Cryer (left) and Charlie Sheen.Photo:Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty, Michael Buckner/Penske Media via Getty
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty, Michael Buckner/Penske Media via Getty
Jon Cryerisn’t interested in working withCharlie Sheen— even if he’s turned a new corner.
On Friday’s episode ofThe View, theTwo and a Half Menalum, 58, confessed he had no plans to return for the hit sitcom’s potential revival if his former costar will be involved.
When hostAlyssa Farrah Griffinasked if there was an “opportunity for a reboot” given show creatorChuck Lorre’s recentreconciliationwith Sheen, Cryer admitted he was unaware of any plans in the works.
Despite reports he’s heard that Sheen is “doing a lot better,” the actor revealed that the two haven’t spoken in a few years and shared how “lovely” it was to hear that he and Lorre had reconciled. He added that the television creator’s loss of friendship with Sheen had been “really heartbreaking for him.”
“The thing for me is, whenTwo and a Half Menwas happening, Charlie was the highest-paid actor in television, probably ever,” he continued. “There has been nobody who has surpassed the enormous amount of money that he was making. And yet he blew it up.”
Cryer added, “So, you kind of have to think — I love him, I wish him the best, I hope that he should live in good health for the rest of his life — but I don’t know if I want to get in business with him for any length of time.”
Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer on ‘Two and a Half Men’.Gale Adler/CBS via Getty
Gale Adler/CBS via Getty
He noted that he would be open to a “one-off” and whenAna Navarroasked if he would change his tune if he were to get “paid the same.”
Cryer replied, “Yeah, there you go. There you go. That sounds fair!”
Back in 2011, Sheen targeted Lorre in a series of rants where he called him a“clown,” “a stupid, stupid man” and hurled anti-semitic insults. At the time, the actor was struggling withhis drug and alcohol addiction, which led him to go offon bizarre rantsabout “winning” and using “tiger’s blood.”
Chuck Lorre (left) and actor Charlie Sheen.Vince Bucci/Getty
Despite the broken bridges, when Lorre and hisHow to Be a Bookieco-creator Nick Bakay needed to cast “a real-life Hollywood star” to play a high roller, the writer immediately thought of Sheen.
“It should be Charlie,” he recalled considering the 58-year-old actor toVariety. “I remember Charlie was very much engaged in sports betting and he would tell me stories about it all the time. You know, when things were good.”
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Though he felt apprehensive about their reunion, Lorre shared that the duo quickly picked up right where they left off.
“I was nervous, but almost as soon as we started talking, I remembered, we were friends once,” he explained. “And that friendship just suddenly seemed to be there again.”
source: people.com
