A two-part documentary about Charlie Sheen will premiere on Netflix on Wednesday, exploring the highs and lows of the actor’s multi-decade profession.
aka Charlie Sheen, directed by Andrew Renzi, reveals Sheen’s reflections on pivotal moments all through his life — from an unconventional childhood because the youngest son of an actor and artist in Malibu, Calif., to changing into the highest-paid TV actor, to his very public, drug-fueled downfall in 2011.
“I discover the best way he approached it to be courageous and wonderful,” Renzi instructed Netflix’s Tudum. “I wished to point out that he had lovely occasions but in addition horrible occasions. We see the implications of those actions. I wasn’t shying away from the reality.”
The brand new documentary will probably be launched sooner or later after Sheen’s new memoir, The E-book of Sheen, is ready to come back out on Tuesday. As we head into what is going to seemingly be per week stuffed with revelations in regards to the 60-year-old’s life, right here’s what we all know in regards to the Netflix docuseries.
Sheen didn’t need to movie the documentary at first
Within the trailer for aka Charlie Sheen, Sheen says, “The stuff that I plan on sharing, I had made a sacred vow to solely divulge to a therapist,” including that nothing is “off-limits.”
Regardless of Sheen’s transparency within the completed product, director Renzi instructed Tudum that the actor initially didn’t need to be concerned within the venture in any respect.
“[Sheen] was like, ‘Why step into this enviornment on this approach?’” Renzi mentioned. “I had seven to eight months of relationship constructing with him earlier than we even sat right down to shoot the movie. That was actually vital to me.”
Sheen says within the trailer that he understands he’s the one individual “who has the solutions to so many individuals’s questions on me,” which is why he determined to share all the pieces he can — the nice and the unhealthy.
An undated picture of Sheen that is featured within the documentary. (Netflix)
Sheen addresses the 2011 interval that ended his profession
Whereas Sheen had confronted adverse tabloid protection earlier in life, his 2011 public downfall was a major turning level that ended his TV profession — a interval he addresses instantly within the collection.
“Disgrace is suffocating,” he says within the trailer. “I lit the fuse, you understand, and my life changed into all the pieces it wasn’t speculated to be.”
His “fuse” ignited in January 2011, when his hit present Two and a Half Males went on hiatus to accommodate his third stint in rehab for drug dependancy, lower than a 12 months after it was introduced he was incomes $1.8 million per episode for the present — making him the very best paid actor on tv on the time. Months later, CBS fired Sheen after he publicly criticized creator Chuck Lorre in a radio interview with Alex Jones.
Sheen went on to present extra headline-grabbing interviews all through early 2011, repeatedly slamming each Lorre and Two and a Half Males. In March of that 12 months, he gave the now-infamous interview to ABC’s 20/20 wherein he declared he had “tiger blood” and coined the catchphrase, “Successful!” Whereas Sheen had overtly handled drug and alcohol dependancy for years, on the time, he denied that his dependancy points had been behind his conduct.
He has since publicly admitted to consuming alcohol each morning in 2011, and that he was hooked on crack, which contributed to his intercourse dependancy, and finally led to his HIV prognosis— all of which he talks about within the documentary.
Sheen, who has been sober for seven years now, has addressed this public meltdown within the years since. He has many regrets about that point, he instructed Yahoo Leisure across the tenth anniversary of the 20/20 interview.
“There was 55 alternative ways for me to deal with that state of affairs, and I selected quantity 56,” Sheen instructed Yahoo in 2021, referring to being fired from Two and a Half Males. “I believe the expansion for me post-meltdown or soften ahead or soften someplace — nonetheless you need to label it — it has to begin with absolute possession of my function in all of it.”
Renzi instructed Tudum it was vital for Sheen to discover how and why all the pieces unfolded, and to look at his function in it, for the documentary.
“This conduct is one thing that Charlie is aware of is to not be glorified,” he mentioned.
Who’s interviewed within the docuseries?
Sheen’s ex-wife, Denise Richards, is without doubt one of the individuals interviewed within the docuseries. (Netflix)
aka Charlie Sheen options interviews with a lot of Sheen’s shut family and friends members, together with his Two and a Half Males costar Jon Cryer, ex-wives Brooke Mueller and Denise Richards, and his brother Ramon Estevez. Sheen’s daughter, Lola Sheen, can be interviewed, as are “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss, actors Chris Tucker and Sean Penn, and Two and a Half Males creator Lorre.
Sheen’s different brother, Emilio Estevez, and pa, Martin Sheen, should not interviewed within the documentary, however not due to any form of rift inside the household, the New York Instances reported. Emilio Estevez instructed the Instances that he and their dad watched a tough reduce of the docuseries and thought their views didn’t add something to the story, in order that they selected to not take part.
