{"id":139533,"date":"2025-09-13T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139533\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:17:07","slug":"two-and-a-half-mens-jon-cryer-made-a-third-of-charlie-sheens-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139533\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Two and a Half Men’s Jon Cryer Made “A Third” Of Charlie Sheen’s Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA decade after Two and a Half Men<\/a> concluded, Jon Cryer<\/a> has some choice words about his onscreen brother Charlie Sheen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Emmy winner recently compared his former co-star to a dictator, recalling that he was paid \u201ca third\u201d of what Sheen made for their CBS<\/a> sitcom, which ran for 12 seasons from 2003 to 2015.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s in the midst of falling apart in every way that I can imagine, and he\u2019s renegotiating his contract for another year of a show that I\u2019m supposed to be on too,\u201d he explained in the Netflix<\/a> documentary aka Charlie Sheen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong-Il. He acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him that they would shovel money at him,\u201d added Cryer. \u201cWell, that\u2019s what happened here. [Sheen\u2019s] negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart. Me, whose life was pretty good at that time, I got a third of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCryer noted that CBS \u201cpre-sold a couple extra seasons of the show,\u201d which motivated them to \u201cspend this astonishing amount of money on Charlie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tTwo and a Half Men<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWarner Bros. 2023<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Two and a Half Men, hedonistic jingle writer Charlie Harper\u2019s (Sheen) life is thrown for a loop when his recently divorced brother Alan (Cryer) moves into the bachelor\u2019s beachfront house with his son Jake (Angus T. Jones<\/a>). Following Charlie\u2019s death on the show, billionaire Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher<\/a>) bought the house and filled out the trio.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmid his addiction battle, Sheen was fired from the show<\/a> in 2011 after taking public swipes at CBS, Warner Bros.<\/a> and series co-creator Chuck Lorre<\/a>. Season 8 was cut short amid the ordeal, and Kutcher replaced Sheen for the remainder of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A decade after Two and a Half Men concluded, Jon Cryer has some choice words about his onscreen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,3871,55340,134,95150,427,95151],"class_list":{"0":"post-139533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cbs","11":"tag-charlie-sheen","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jon-cryer","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-two-and-a-half-men"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}