Variety on Wednesday. “And that friendship just suddenly seemed to be there again.”“I don’t want to be too mawkish about it, but it was healing,” Lorre continued. “And he was also totally game to make fun of himself.
When he came to the table read of that episode, I walked up, and we hugged. It was just great.”Reflecting on his time spent with Sheen, 58, while filming the hit CBS sitcom, Lorre said that he actually enjoyed working with the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” actor. “I loved working with Charlie on ‘Two and a Half Men,'” Lorre recalled. “We did 170 episodes together before it all fell apart.
And more often than not, we had a good time.” “Assuming he’s in a good place, I’m in a good place,” the director added. According to Lorre, he knew he wanted the “Being John Malkovich” star right from the get-go.“It should be Charlie,” Lorre, who wanted a real-life celebrity for the role, said to Variety. “I remember Charlie was very much engaged in sports betting and he would tell me stories about it all the time.
You know, when things were good.”“He proceeded to kill it at the table read,” Lorre gushed. “His chops were just so finely tuned, as if we had not missed a beat.” The Post reached out to Sheen for comment.
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