Sheen’s latest ultimatum: $3m per episode
Update: Charlie Sheen now wants a pay rise if he's to return to his sitcom and threatens legal action. Now his publicist of 7 years has resigned.
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Yes, there will come a time when there are not daily posts about Charlie Sheen.
Media oxygen, including on here, will evaporate. But right now this is still a major media story.
In his latest series of interviews (now including NBC, another rival network to CBS), Sheen demands $3m an episode, up from his current whopping pay packet of $2m. Take it or leave it, he says.
So that’s a cool $1m raise?
“Yeah, look what they put me through,” he says.
They?
He even says he is underpaid.
“I’m tired of pretending I’m not special.”
CBS -apparently- should apologise by “licking my feet.”
He also gave an interview to Radar Online’s Dylan Howard (former Seven News reporter) with more outrageous claims.
“They’ve not protected me. They’ve not said ‘Mr. Lorre I’m sorry you’re a clown, bye bye. We’re taking care of dude because he’s a rock star, a legend.’
“Why isn’t anybody like rushing to my aid, rushing to protect me, rushing to protect their most valuable commodity? The guy they say – the guy who Peter Roth (President) says, ‘he keeps the light on at Warner Bros.’”
Sheen has been losing support from all quarters: network, studio, producers, family, fellow actors, publicists.
Last night Nine dropped its Two and a Half Men repeat in Brisbane only, presumably to see how The Big Bang Theory would fare in the timeslot.
He also told ABC: “I’m gonna sue for what I’m worth and what I deserve and what they think they can take from me. They can’t.
“I don’t have a job. I got a whole family to support and love. And — people beyond myself, people a lot more important than me, are relying on that money to — fuel the magic.”
Radar has since verified that Sheen passed a drug and urine test. What about a sanity one?
UPDATE: Lawyers for Charlie Sheen have sent Warner Bros. and CBS a letter threatening legal action if the studio doesn’t resume production of ‘Two and a Half Men’ or pay Sheen the money owed on his contract.
UPDATE: Veteran Hollywood publicist Stan Rosenfield, who represented Charlie Sheen through the actor’s rehab attempts and breakup with his employers on the hit sitcom “Two and a Half Men,” abruptly resigned on Monday. “I have worked with Charlie Sheen for a long time and I care about him very much,” Rosenfield wrote in a brief statement. “However, at this time, I’m unable to work effectively as his publicist and have respectfully resigned.” In a follow-up e-mail, Rosenfield said he had represented Sheen for at least seven years.
Source: EW, NY Daily News, Hollywood Reporter, LA Times
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37 Responses
First off i want to say “F*** off Charlie” He is just a pathetic excuse for a human being.
To the show itself heres how i see it. If CBS and Warners cave to his demands then they are 100x worse than he is and are a bunch of idiots if they do. This man is insane. Thats how i see him. Mentally diluded. Sorry but its just who he is.
I feel sorry for the rest of the cast but its Charlies fault and he deserves every single thing that comes to him. If he goes to court then i hope CBS and Warners win. He doesn’t deserve anything.
saw a snippet of one of the interviews he did today, and it is patently obvious that he is a very unwell man on all levels – the media should stop giving him airtime so he can settle down a bit. I feel very sorry for his father and family and hope that someone can get him into psychiatric help as soon as possible. The show should be put out of its misery, so the crew and other actors can move on. Regardless of his outrageous behaviour, the man needs help, and fast!
I agree with the majority of comments here.
While I’ve never been a fan of his or the show,
I don’t think he’s doing himself any favours by this kind of behavior.
I only saw part of the interview on tv this morning,
but what I saw … I didn’t like.
He seems very angry, arrogant & somewhat irrational.
Maybe he needs to take some time out,
and really get his act & his life together.
I don’t see this ending well … for anyone.
Honestly, the industry needs to blackball Sheen and don’t go anywhere near him with a ten foot pole. This guy is either completely out of control or putting on an extremely immature act. It’s clear he thinks he is bigger than the show so it’s a good opportunity for the owners and the industry to show that he is not.
They should replace him with Emelio Esteves.
But Charlie, you Are special… to the nation of Columbia… But still you’re special.
P.S. The sh*t the Top Gear boys pull on a weekly basis doesn’t seem so bad now does it?
Its interesting how some actors seem to think that they are bigger than the industry theyare in. Charlie Sheen should first get his life in order and set a good example for his children before threatening anyone or any company of legal action. I very much doubt that he will win in a court of law. Besides Warner Brothers and CBS have truckloads of money to thow at this case if it ever gets to trial, however Charlie Sheen has only a certain amount. I am pretty sure the only reason he is asking for more money is because he broke to some degree because of his partying ways.
This guy is delusional. Seriously he does not deseve 3 mill an episode for a 1/2 hour sitcom.
Why should anyone come to help you or protect your. You are over 40 years old for christ sake. Take some responsibility. No one put cocaine in your hand or the alcohol in your system or gets you in troble with porn stars.
It would be nice if you just disappeared for awhile.
The other cast on that show should be suiing him – for all the uncertainty around their own positions because he is so out of control!
“… are relying on that money to — fuel the magic.”
Someone must have mistakenly edit out the last three words of that sentence – “Columbian marching powder”.
OMG this whole scenario is comedy gold! Sheen may be a coke-scarred megalomaniac but whoever is writing his lines is genius! Still think it’s goin to be hard to top the “fire breathing fists” line.
I even laughed out loud at some of the comments here. This is at least twice as funny as “Live from Planet Earth”. Someone should commission a comedy show about this.
$3 million an episode ….Is he insane.For that I would rather pay Nine to axe his show and put on something actually funny or intelligent worth watching
When the star of a show “becomes” bigger than the show itself, then you know the show has limited time left, whether cbs replaces sheen with someone else(recasting), does a spin off with jon cryer etc, minus sheen or the show is axed, 2 and a 1/2 men as we know it is pretty much done now.