Jon Cryer is open to returning to Two and a Half Males. ET’s Kevin Frazier spoke to the 58-year-old actor following sequence creator Chuck Lorre‘s reconciliation with Charlie Sheen, and he expressed an openness to reprising his position of Alan Harper from the favored sitcom.
“I am not going to rule something out, however I have never talked to Charlie,” Cryer stated. “I am actually glad they made up… I can solely say for Chuck, clearly. He has the large aid of any individual who’s been capable of rekindle a friendship that was actually significant to him.”
Lorre and Sheen fell out in 2011 after the present right into a hiatus so the actor, who performed Charlie Harper, might enter rehab for a 3rd time. After Sheen fired again at Lorre with publicly disparaging feedback, CBS and Warner Bros. canceled the remaining episodes of the season, terminating the actor’s contract and banning him from their manufacturing lot. He was later changed on Two and a Half Males by Ashton Kutcher, and the present ran for 4 extra seasons.
When Lorre started engaged on his new present, Bookie, he reached out to Sheen to play a fictional model of himself.
“He and Charlie have been very, very shut for the primary few years of Two and a Half Males and that they’ve managed to reconcile is admittedly beautiful,” Cryer instructed ET. “I’ve not spoken to Charlie. I do not know that he is aware of my quantity anymore. However something might occur.”
When ET spoke to Lorre in November, he expressed pleasure about working with Sheen once more.
“I used to be hopeful that Charlie was in a great place and up for it. He could not have been extra gracious and enthusiastic and beneficiant about the entire thing,” Lorre stated of Sheen, earlier than recalling of their reunion, “It was simply essentially the most pure factor on the planet. The 2 of us hugged… It was closure. It was therapeutic. And it was an enormous weight off my coronary heart. I do not wish to communicate for Charlie, however I feel he felt the identical factor. It was an important alternative for us to bury that darkness, and have enjoyable.”
Now, Cryer has moved on to a brand new mission as he is set to star in Prolonged Household, a brand new sitcom during which the actor performs Jim, a fortunately divorced man who lives together with his ex-wife (Abigail Spencer) and their children as she begins courting somebody new (Donald Faison).
“We shot the pilot of this present virtually two years in the past, as a result of it is taken this loopy winding path,” Cryer stated. “All of us find it irresistible a lot and all of us cared about it a lot… We couldn’t be extra thrilled for America to lastly get an opportunity to see it.”
Faison agreed, noting, “This can be a present the place the dad and mom are like, ‘Look, for the children let’s have an amicable divorce and actually present them that we’re nonetheless companions in elevating them.”
“What I really like concerning the present is we’re displaying that there might be a special technique to do divorce,” Spencer added. “… I simply have not seen something like this on TV.”
Prolonged Household will air its first episode Dec. 23 on NBC. The present will premiere in its common timeslot Jan. 2 on NBC.
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