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 superb,” Renzi advised Netflix’s Tudum. “I needed to indicate that he had stunning instances but in addition horrible instances. We see the results 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 Book of Sheen, is ready to return out on Tuesday. As we head into what is going to doubtless 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 disclose to a therapist,” including that nothing is “off-limits.”
Regardless of Sheen’s transparency within the completed product, director Renzi advised Tudum that the actor initially didn’t need to be concerned within the mission in any respect.
“[Sheen] was like, ‘Why step into this enviornment on this manner?’” 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 particular person “who has the solutions to so many individuals’s questions on me,” which is why he determined to share every little thing he can — the great 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 destructive tabloid protection earlier in life, his 2011 public downfall was a major turning level that ended his TV profession — a interval he addresses immediately within the sequence.
“Disgrace is suffocating,” he says within the trailer. “I lit the fuse, you already know, and my life became every little thing 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 highest-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 during which he declared he had “tiger blood” and coined the catchphrase, “Profitable!” Whereas Sheen had overtly handled drug and alcohol dependancy for years, on the time, he denied that his addiction issues have been behind his conduct.
He has since publicly admitted to drinking alcohol every morning in 2011 and that he was hooked on crack, which contributed to his intercourse dependancy, and ultimately led to his HIV diagnosis — 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 told Yahoo Entertainment across the tenth anniversary of the 20/20 interview.
“There was 55 other ways for me to deal with that scenario, and I selected quantity 56,” Sheen advised Yahoo in 2021, referring to being fired from Two and a Half Males. “I feel 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 advised Tudum it was vital for Sheen to discover how and why every little thing 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 lots 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 pop, Martin Sheen, aren’t interviewed within the documentary, however not due to any type of rift throughout the household, the New York Times reported. Emilio Estevez advised the Occasions that he and their dad watched a tough lower of the docuseries and thought their views didn’t add something to the story, so that they selected to not take part.
