JamesG
08-30-2017, 07:28 PM
After star Charlie Sheen was fired from the show in 2011, Kathy Bates was recruited to play his character’s ghost in a season 9 episode.
"I’m friends with the Sheen family. I called Martin’s wife, Janet, to run it by her because I didn’t want to upset them. They said it would be fine. By then there had been so much enmity between Chuck Lorre and Charlie Sheen that [Lorre] was thrilled when I won an Emmy. Charlie had been nominated but had never won. Janet talked to Charlie and he said he was honored for me to play his character, which I thought was pretty damn cool of him."
http://ew.com/tv/kathy-bates-career-role-call/two-and-a-half-men-2012
"I’m friends with the Sheen family. I called Martin’s wife, Janet, to run it by her because I didn’t want to upset them. They said it would be fine. By then there had been so much enmity between Chuck Lorre and Charlie Sheen that [Lorre] was thrilled when I won an Emmy. Charlie had been nominated but had never won. Janet talked to Charlie and he said he was honored for me to play his character, which I thought was pretty damn cool of him."
http://ew.com/tv/kathy-bates-career-role-call/two-and-a-half-men-2012