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by Jean Bentley, posted Aug 29th 2011 11:40AM
Although Chuck Lorre would probably love to leave Charlie Sheen behind as quickly as possible once 'Two and a Half Men' returns, remaining star Jon Cryer says the death of Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, is something the show will address all season long.Cryer told Entertainment Weekly in an interview, "The history of the show does not go away at all," despite Sheen's absence. "It will be dealt with all through the first season. It's not, 'Oh, that character's gone, let's forget completely about him.' There will be ramifications all through the season. We're not taking this into a new universe where the first show didn't exist."
'Two and a Half Men' is a lot more secretive than it has been in the past, but Cryer said he is taking it in stride. "It's funny because everybody is signing nondisclosure agreements," he said to EW. "The scripts go out with watermarks and every script gets handed to you personally by somebody from the show. They're being super secretive. And that's all new, the show has never functioned like that before."
So, any news on what will happen to Cryer's character, Alan? "What isn't new is they've never told me what my character is going to go through," he said. "They've cryptically hinted at stuff. One of the characters will be institutionalized, but they don't say which character or what kind of institution. I don't mind that because to me that feels like life -- you never know what's going to happen next. And God knows last year proved that to me."
Although the mood on-set was tense during the first episode, Cryer said Ashton Kutcher, who is joining the series as broken-hearted Internet billionaire Walden Schmidt, cracked the tension with his easygoing attitude -- and a masseuse. Plus, Kutcher's ginormous trailer has turned into an on-set hangout.
"I have been in what I refer to as the U.S.S. Yorktown," Cryer told EW. "What's great about it is it provides shade -- for most of the studio lot. He had told me early on that he was going to get an enormous trailer. It's a fun place to hang out for us and anybody on the crew -- he has an open-door policy. He's got almost a club upstairs -- yeah, that's right, I said upstairs. He pipes music out before and after the shows and everybody hangs out. It creates a great vibe."
Kutcher, who is now one of TV's highest-paid stars, obviously fits in well on the show, Cryer said. "Working with Ashton is a blast," he told EW. "He's clearly a guy who missed doing sitcoms quite a bit. He just lights up on show night. It's a lot of fun for he and I because we have to discover what works between us, and he's game for anything. There's already -- lines have been crossed already that probably never should have been crossed, as you'll see in the first episode."
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