Two and a Half Males star Charlie Sheen acquired much more than two and a half instances what costar Jon Cryer acquired for the hit CBS sitcom. In reality, Cryer says his wage was only a third of Sheen’s.
Cryer discusses the pay discrepancy within the new Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, as he recounts his costar’s contentious time on Two and a Half Males.
“He’s within the midst of falling aside in each manner that I can think about, and he’s renegotiating his contract for an additional yr of a present that I’m purported to be on, too,” Cryer says within the doc, per Deadline. “The dictator of North Korea was a man named Kim Jong Il. He acted loopy on a regular basis and thus acquired huge quantities of assist from nations who have been so fearful of him that they’d shovel cash at him. Properly, that’s what occurred right here. [Sheen’s] negotiations went off the charts as a result of his life was falling aside. Me, whose life was fairly good at the moment, I acquired a 3rd of that.”
Cryer additionally revealed that CBS “pre-sold a pair further seasons of the present,” so the community felt the necessity to “spend this astonishing amount of cash on Charlie.”
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Due to that “astonishing” wage for Sheen, Cryer was nonetheless making good cash, though he was incomes two-thirds much less. Forbes experiences that Sheen renegotiated his Two and a Half Males contract in 2010, shortly earlier than the 2011 substance-abuse battle that ended his time on the sitcom. And he was incomes about $1.3 million per episode in upfront, plus roughly $600,000 in back-end syndication charges, totaling round $1.9 million for each 22-minute installment. And Cryer was incomes about $620,000 per episode as of 2013, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter .
Whereas they have been nonetheless costarring on the present, Sheen performed hedonistic bachelor Charlie Harper, whereas Cryer performed brother Alan Harper, who strikes himself and his son, Jake (Angus T. Jones), in with Charlie following his divorce. Following Sheen’s exit in Season 8, Ashton Kutcher joined the forged and performed billionaire Walden Schmidt, Alan’s new roommate, for the final 4 seasons.
After seeing Cryer’s interview in aka Charlie Sheen, Sheen expressed curiosity in reconnecting together with his onscreen brother. However Cryer mentioned on The View final yr he wouldn’t wish to be a part of Sheen in a Two and a Half Males reboot.
“I like him, I want him one of the best, I hope he ought to reside in good well being for the remainder of his life, however I don’t know if I wish to get in enterprise with him for any size of time,” Cryer mentioned on the time.