14 DAY TRIAL // At the end of the month, Charlie Sheen will be making his (hopefully triumphant) return to television after the insanely-mediated scandal that cost him his job on Warner Bros'. “Two and a Half Men.” The actor sat down for an interview with the New York Times to talk about “Anger Management.”
Inspired by the Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson-starring comedy of the same name, the new show sees Sheen as the counselor. Further details are not available right now but, if we're to believe Charlie, it will be truly something else.
The first question thrown at him is whether he doesn't fear, as he's about to set sail with a new project, that his fans might not be there for him when the new sitcom premieres.
Come to think of it, he's done a lot of nasty things and gotten himself into more trouble than any other celebrity, but Sheen is confident that the fans have forgiven him – and will support him in all his future projects.
“I don’t know, man. They seem to be rooting pretty hard for this next thing. And the ones that pay attention know that I’m not just some loose cannon that’s out there making [stuff] up. Or trying to set up a different image of who I think I am or trying to convince them I’m somebody different,” Sheen says.
He knows he's made a lot of mistakes but, at the same time, he's also apologized for each and every one of them.
That's why fans still love and support him.
“I think that’s the reason people have stayed with me, is because I’ve just always been honest. I’ve always been like, 'I did it, sorry, nobody got hurt, nobody got arrested.' Not all the time. And you move on,” he says.
Sheen also compares “Anger Management” to “Two and a Half Men” and stresses that the former will be better than the latter, which, after all, no longer has him as its “anchor.”
“You take away your anchor and you go adrift. That’s all,” he says, not laughing.
It seems that FX, Charlie's new home network, is just as confident as he is that “Anger Management” will be a hit.
Gossip blogger Perez Hilton has it on very good authority that a second season has already been greenlit and will start shooting this summer, even though the first one hasn't aired yet.
Sheen seems to confirm the report by linking to the article on his Twitter feed and saying that he'd always known he had a good reason for liking Perez.
“FX and Lionsgate have already told creator Bruce Helford and his writing team to head back to work on July 9, so confident are they of a second series,” the source tells Perez.
In the meantime, here is Sheen's full interview with NYT. If you were ever a fan (and even if you weren't), it's worth a read.