John Cryer revealed in Netflix’s “aka Charlie Sheen” that his “two and a half men” payday threatened the survival of the show, and was “third” to co-star Charlie Sheen despite the fact that he eventually fired Season after Season 8, and then fired Season after Season 8, which later delayed the season after Season 8.
“He’s in the midst of falling apart in every way I can imagine, and he’s renegotiating his contract for another year on the show that I’m supposed to do too,” Kryer says in the documentary (via Entertainment Weekly).
“The North Korean dictator was a man named Kim Jung-il. He always acted like crazy and got a huge amount of help from a country that scared him enough to steal money.
Kryer continued as a “2.5-year-old” man throughout his 12th and final season. In the documentary, Cryer says CBS was forced to “expend this incredible amount of money on Charlie” because it was “already on sale a few seasons before the show” before Sheen’s public breakdown. A 2011 report from Forbes Magazine claims that Sheen makes $1.9 million for each “two and a half men” episode.
Elsewhere in “aka Charlie Sheen,” Kryer also expressed hesitation about joining the two-part Netflix series.
“I worked with Charlie Sheen for eight years,” says Kryer. “And if I think I had hair when I started, what it was like to work with Charlie Sheen for eight years, I felt a bit of anxious about joining this. Partly, part of Charlie Sheen’s life cycle is so badly ruined, he smacks the rock bottom and he’s going to burn things again. In the house, I didn’t want to be part of that cycle.
“AKA Charlie Sheen” is now available for streaming on Netflix.
