Actor Charlie Sheen is reportedly teaming up again with the co-creator of the former hit CBS show “Two and a Half Men” for a new series that will air on HBO.
Variety reported that Sheen would be featured in Chuck Lorre’s new series “How to Be a Bookie,” which is set to air later this year.
The show stars Sebastian Maniscalco, who plays a veteran bookie struggling to survive amid “impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family, co-workers, and a lifestyle that bounces him around every corner of Los Angeles high and low,” Deadline reported.
Sheen and Lorre worked together on “Two and a Half Men” for eight years when Sheen, who was the highest-paid actor on TV at the time, said he had a “meltdown” that resulted in him being terminated from the show.
Sheen reflected on the entire ordeal during an interview two years ago with Yahoo! Entertainment.
“People have [said to] me, ‘Hey, man, that was so cool, that was so fun to watch. That was so cool to be a part of and support and all that energy and, you know, we stuck it to the man,” Sheen said. “My thought behind that is, ‘Oh, yeah, great. I’m so glad that I traded early retirement for a f–king hashtag.'”
“There was 55 different ways for me to handle that situation, and I chose number 56,” Sheen continued. “And so, you know, I think the growth for me post-meltdown or melt forward or melt somewhere — however you want to label it — it has to start with absolute ownership of my role in all of it. And it was desperately juvenile.”
Sheen said that everything that happened was the result of using drugs and “an ocean of stress and a volcano of disdain.”
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“I had four children and went through two divorces in and around trying to navigate the landscape of being on the most popular show in the known universe, so it was a lot,” Sheen said.
In a 2017 interview, Sheen spoke about his HIV diagnosis, revealing that he was taking an experimental drug for the disease. “We are very close to being approved and it is not this hideous cocktail that leads to so many side-effects, emotionally and physically—it’s one shot a week,” Sheen said at the time. “It’s going well and I feel like I’m carrying the torch for a lot of folks who are suffering from the same thing.”
Sheen appeared to suggest that the public meltdown was caused by a “roid rage” from “doing way too much testosterone cream” in an attempt to “keep the old libido up.”
“It metabolizes into basically a roid rage,” he said. “That whole odyssey. That was basically an accidental roid rage. But there’s some good quotes that came out of it, right? There’s a few fun moments. So bizarre, so bizarre, so bizarre.”
“I think ultimately, in our blueprint, in our DNA, I believe that we are the sum total of all of our experiences, good and bad,” he added. “But they don’t lead the charge,” he said. “It’s fun to kind of watch sometimes but also just a little bit cringeable. It’s like, ‘Dude, what the hell was that?'”
