"I was just scared every day that I was going to read about Charlie being dead. "At the time, I was not angry," replied Cryer. Tracy asked Cryer, "Were you angry at all? Was it, 'I've worked so hard to finally have this kind of success and now you're jeopardizing it'?" Then, eight years into their run, Charlie Sheen had an all-too-public meltdown, and forever redefined the word "winning." Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer in "Two and a Half Men." Moonves says it was more like, "'I'm not sure, let's see him audition,' and he did great!"īy every account "Two and a Half Men" was an instant hit. The message was, "Les Moonves, arguably the most powerful guy in the business of television, really doesn't want you for this," Cryer laughed in retrospect. But word was that CBS Network president Les Moonves thought Cryer was damaged goods. So in 2003 when he heard about a new show being developed called "Two and a Half Men," he wanted an audition. I spent three years with very little work." "There was not a lot of people that wanted to hire me for a while. "After the 'show killer' thing - I joke about it now, but at the time, it was a real issue for me in the industry," Cryer said.
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