Charlie Sheen Reunites With Chuck Lorre for Max Series 'How to Be a Bookie'
etonline.comCharlie Sheen is reuniting with Chuck Lorre.The star has joined Lorre's upcoming new Max series, How to Be a Bookie, according to multiplereports.
Sheen will recur in the series, which is led by comedian Sebastian Maniscalco.Warner Bros. TV and Max declined to comment.News of Sheen and Lorre's professional reunion comes more than a decade after Sheen was fired from after he called Lorre a «clown» and a «stupid little man.» Around that same time, Sheen took part in an eyebrow-raising viral sit-down interview with ABC News, where he expressed that he had «tiger blood» and was «winning,» and entering rehab.As a result of Sheen's termination in March 2011, his character was killed off on the popular sitcom though it was later revealed in the 2015 series finale that he had been alive all this time.
Though Sheen did not appear in the episode, his character died after a piano fell on him.“I know a lot of you might be disappointed that you didn’t get to see Charlie Sheen in tonight’s finale.
For the record, he was offered a role,” Lorre wrote at the time, explaining Sheen's absence in the Two and a Half Men swan song.“Our idea was to have him walk up to the front door in the last scene, ring the doorbell, then turn, look directly into the camera and go off on a maniacal rant about the dangers of drug abuse.
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