In case he wasn’t actually long gone? Two and a Half Men brought back Charlie Sheen‘s character in its series finale on Thursday, Feb. 19, only to kill off Charlie Harper — but again.
While the actor himself did not return to the set (which show writer Chuck Lorre later defined), his character, as it grew to become out, was still alive by the series finale. Throughout the episode, Sheen used to be mocked for his extraordinary conduct, starting with his infamous meltdown in 2011, which resulted in his firing from the CBS sitcom.
In the last scene of the finale, Harper was beaten when a large grand piano all at once came tumbling down from the sky, killing him for the second time within the show’s 12-season run. Lorre then made a surprise cameo, turning over to the digicam and turning in the zinger, “profitable,” before another piano overwhelmed him, too.
Lorre published the cause of Sheen’s absence in a production word, saying the actor had been invited but grew to become down the chance.
“I know a large number of you could be disappointed that you didn’t get to peer Charlie Sheen in tonight’s finale,” Lorre noted. “For the file, he was once offered a job. Our concept used to be to have him walk up to the front door in the closing scene, ring the doorbell, then flip, look at once into the camera, and move off on a maniacal rant about the dangers of drug abuse. He would then explain that these dangers most effective observe to average folks. That he was once a long way from reasonable. He was a ninja warrior from Mars. He used to be invincible. And then we'd drop a piano on him. We concept it was funny. He didn’t. Instead, he sought after us to put in writing a heartwarming scene that would arrange his go back to primetime TV in a brand new sitcom referred to as The Harpers starring him and Jon Cryer. We concept that used to be humorous, too.”
Lorre spoke to Entertainment Weekly about delivering the final phrases within the series, and why he went with Sheen’s now-coined phrase: “winning.”
“It felt like the funniest and must succinct strategy to finish the damn factor,” Lorre defined. “And dropping the second one piano additionally felt like an appropriate reaction — perhaps nobody wins, but confidently we laughed alongside the way in which.” Lorre said he and the group had been disillusioned in Sheen’s refusal to participate.
“This used to be a tale line we were serious about doing for a very long time,” he defined to EW. “Several months in the past, I could feel there used to be a palpable amount of pent-up want to look Charlie, to have closure within the finale. We reached out to him 4, five weeks in the past. He would glance within the camera and have his moment. The complete thought was for him to have a monologue into the digicam. That felt like an intensive final moment for the finale. I thought that used to be an acceptable strategy to do it, but he didn’t like the idea and that’s how it is going. We had been hoping lets make it paintings. It used to be now not intended to be.”
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The hourlong sendoff, on the other hand, included an excellent roster of Hollywood names together with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christian Slater, John Stamos, and the return of the Half guy himself, Angus T. Jones.
Watch a part of the finale above!
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