14 DAY TRIAL // Ashton Kutcher is coming to replace Charlie Sheen the Warlock on the hit comedy “Two and a Half Men” and, while most details of his part are kept under wraps, there’s at least one person willing to talk about it: co-star Jon Cryer.
As fans of the show must already know, Cryer has been very quiet and very delicate about the whole situation with Charlie Sheen and, most importantly, his firing from the show after the spat with showrunner Chuck Lorre and about everyone involved in the making of it.
After the official announcement that Kutcher will be the new leading star, Cryer is speaking out, telling E! News in a statement that he’s “jazzed” by the prospect of working with him.
Of course, he’s equally thrilled that the show is coming back on the small screen, especially since there was plenty of talk that it will be canceled for good these past few months.
“I’m jazzed about the news this morning that Two and a Half Men is coming back! For all the rest of the cast and crew I’m sure they are equally excited,” the actor says in the statement.
Cryer is definitely making efforts to put the Charlie Sheen “era” behind him and, at the same time, make audiences at home understand that Kutcher’s arrival would mark a new stage in the evolution of the show.
“I want to express my enormous gratitude to Charlie Sheen for eight great seasons. I’m extremely proud of the work we’ve done together, and I will miss him. But I’m also looking forward to this new beginning,” he says.
“Ashton is an extraordinarily talented guy, and his presence will be an asset to our show,” Cryer adds.
Apparently, he and Kutcher have more in common than we thought.
“We are old friends from our male modeling days, and we’re both looking forward to being judged for our comedic artistry, as opposed to our exceptional physical beauty,” the funnyman adds.
Clearly, that’s a point of view that Charlie Sheen doesn’t share, saying over the weekend that he believed that “Two and a Half Men” was a sinking ship that would also take Ashton with it, regardless how talented or funny he was.