Overview

• Appearing in aka Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer says he was paid roughly a third of Charlie Sheen’s salary on Two and a Half Men.
• Reported figures put Sheen near $1.9–$2 million per episode in the show’s final year and Cryer around $620,000 per episode.
• Cryer recounts that Sheen’s drug use derailed the work environment and says CBS’s pre-sold seasons boosted Sheen’s bargaining power.
• Sheen says he did not personally invite Cryer because he lacked his current number, later thanking him publicly and asking him to DM his new contact.
• The two-part Netflix film features interviews with Denise Richards, Brooke Mueller, and Sean Penn, and includes Sheen discussing his HIV diagnosis and past drug-fueled sexual encounters; it also revisits his 2011 firing and Ashton Kutcher’s replacement.