Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen got even more than two and a half times what costar Jon Cryer got for the hit CBS sitcom. In fact, Cryer says his salary was just a third of Sheen’s.
Cryer discusses the pay discrepancy in the new Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen , as he recounts his costar’s contentious time on Two and a Half Men .
“He’s in the midst of falling apart in every way that I can imagine, and he’s renegotiating his contract for another year of a show that I’m supposed to be on, too,” Cryer says in the doc, per Deadline . “The dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong Il. He acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him that they would shovel money at him. Well, that’s what happened here