Brian Damage
11-22-2010, 08:19 PM
In 2003, Chuck Lorre was coming up with a new show that required some very specific casting – a comedy he says was about how “a child might be a positive influence on the life of a degenerate.”
It didn’t take long to cast the part.
“For some reason, the words ‘Charlie Sheen’ came to mind,” Lorre tells the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter.
Sheen and Lorre met and a ratings star in Two and a Half Men was born for CBS.
“He had a great sense of humor about it and we built a show around him,” says Lorre of Sheen, now the most highly paid television actor in Hollywood making an estimated $2 million per episode because of the show's success.
It is a relationship – and a hit sitcom – that continues today, despite Sheen’s much-publicized personal problems off the set.
“He’s a worker amongst workers,” Lorre says of Sheen today, “His personal issues don’t come onto the stage, and he’s been a good partner for a long time.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-lorre-called-charlie-sheen-48125
It didn’t take long to cast the part.
“For some reason, the words ‘Charlie Sheen’ came to mind,” Lorre tells the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter.
Sheen and Lorre met and a ratings star in Two and a Half Men was born for CBS.
“He had a great sense of humor about it and we built a show around him,” says Lorre of Sheen, now the most highly paid television actor in Hollywood making an estimated $2 million per episode because of the show's success.
It is a relationship – and a hit sitcom – that continues today, despite Sheen’s much-publicized personal problems off the set.
“He’s a worker amongst workers,” Lorre says of Sheen today, “His personal issues don’t come onto the stage, and he’s been a good partner for a long time.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-lorre-called-charlie-sheen-48125