It’s been a while since Charlie Sheen lit up the silver screen – but an end to his movie drought has been mooted.
Last month, Jon Cryer, who starred alongside Sheen in 1991 Hot Shots!, said seeing Top Gun: Maverick had prompted him to think about reuniting with the hellraiser for a third instalment of the comedy film franchise.
Cryer, who also acted with Sheen in the long running TV sitcom Two and a Half Men, tweeted: “Just saw Top Gun: Maverick. Think it’s time to reunite with Sheen for Hot Shots: Part Tres.”
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If – and it’s a big if – it did happen, it would represent a significant second coming for a star who’s endured an almighty fall from grace over the past decade or so.
At one point, he was the highest paid TV star in the world, raking in a reported $1.8m (£1.5m) per episode of Two and a Half Men.
Then it all came crashing down in explosive fashion.
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It’s been over 11 years since he suffered a monumental breakdown as the world watched on in disbelief.
After being sacked from the sitcom in 2011, he continued his downward spiral into serious drug and alcohol abuse.
In one erratic interview, he said the “tiger blood running through his veins” meant he was able to survive his mammoth binges.
Messy break-ups and a bombshell HIV revelation followed, the TV and movie work dried up and, in 2018, Sheen said he could no longer afford to pay £57,000 a month child support to four of his children.
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Sheen then retreated from the limelight and was seen in only a few short one-off TV appearances.
In 2020, fans were shocked to see he’d signed up to Cameo – earning £300 for personalised birthday and anniversary video messages.
It was a dramatic decline for the Hollywood star who was once at the very top of his game.
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The actor shot to fame after appearing in Oliver Stone’s Vietnam movie Platoon in 1986.
But by the 1990s, his partying lifestyle had become tabloid news.
Despite this, he remained hugely successful, helping to pull in huge viewing figures for Two and a Half Men.
But the cracks from his wild lifestyle eventually started to show. And a series of bizarre interviews in which he slated the show’s co-creator Chuck Lorre led to him being sacked.
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He had already spent millions on prostitutes and drugs. In one notorious ABC interview, he boasted that he was high on a drug “named Charlie Sheen”.
“I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It is not available because if you try it once you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body,” he said.
In November 2015, Sheen confirmed he was living with HIV, in an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show.
“I’m here to admit that I am, in fact, HIV positive,” he said.
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“I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks, of sub-truths, and very harmful stories that are about threatening the health of so many others, which couldn’t be farther from the truth.”
Sheen claimed he’d been forced to pay millions of dollars to silence those threatening to reveal the secret of his diagnosis.
Financially he was left in dire straits.
In August 2018, he submitted a document to a Los Angeles court saying he’d “had a significant reduction in earnings” and was in financial crisis with less than $10m to his name.
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He claimed he could no longer afford to pay £57,000 a month child support to four of his children as he had been blacklisted by Hollywood and couldn’t get work.
Professionally, Sheen disappeared off the radar aside from a few one-off TV appearances.
He was recently back in the news after it emerged his teenage daughter Sami had set up an account with adult website, OnlyFans.
Sheen first expressed his concern but later said he would support Sami in her new venture.
Sheen has been married three times, to Donna Peele, as well as actresses Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller. He has five children and a grandchild.
In more recent years, he’s had relationships with former porn stars Bree Olsen, Georgia Jones and Brett Rossi.
But it appears the actor, 56, has left his own wild ways far behind him and he recently said he’s excited to move forward.
“I just, I have absolute faith that the things I’m going to do professionally in Act 3 are going to put a muzzle on all that stuff, and people can celebrate me again for what I actually do for a living,” he said.
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His most recent project is acting as himself in the TV series Ramble On, which is currently in post-production. Entourage creator Doug Ellin is the driving force behind the dramedy about Hollywood veterans looking to reinvent themselves along up and coming stars.
And Cryer, it would appear, is now among those championing his return to TV screen.
Again, it would mark a U-turn for an actor who once recalled being willing to end Two and a Half Men to save Sheen’s life.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Cryer said: “I think, uh, there was a moment where Chuck Lorre and I were looking at each other and we said, ‘It’s not worth this show going on if going on enables Charlie Sheen to kill himself.
“If giving him enough money to do whatever the thing is that ends his life, you know, we don’t want to be a part of that.”
Now, though, with 80s and 90s nostalgia being the flavour of the month, thanks partly to the Top Gun sequel, Sheen could have a way back in to Tinsel Town.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
