What Happened Between Richard Kind And Charlie Sheen On Spin City?
When he began his career during the 80s, Charlie Sheen seemed to be a telented actor with a promising career. And, in no time, he became a big-name star in Hollywood. During the early stages of his career, Sheen appeared in films such as Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Young Guns (1988), The Rookie (1990), The Three Musketeers (1993), and The Arrival (1996).
By the early 2000s, Charlie Sheen’s career was still going strong. In fact, around this time, the actor replaced Michael J. Fox as the main star of ABC's Spin City, a role that earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. However, almost a decade later, Sheen’s career would take a turn for the worst following his problematic behavior in the Two and a Half Men set and a long list of scandals.In a recent interview, actor Richard Kind talked about his experience with Charlie Sheen on Spin City, highlighting what a promising actor he was during the early stages of his career.
Charlie Sheen Landed His First Acting Role at a Very Young Age
Charlie Sheen is the son of actor Martin Sheen (whose real name is Ramón Estévez) and artist Janet Templeton. His parents first moved to Malibu, California, following Martin's Broadway turn in The Subject Was Roses. Growing up in a family of artists, Sheen soon showed interest in acting. And he landed his first professional role when he was only nine, in his father's 1974 film The Execution of Private Slovik.
Then, by the time he was in high school, Sheen began making amateur Super 8 films with his brother Emilio and school friends Rob Lowe and Sean Penn. After being expelled from high school, Sheen decided to pursue an acting career professionally.
After starring in a handful of TV movies, Sheen finally landed the breakthrough role of his career in Oliver Stone’s autobiographical war drama Platoon in 1986. The film won four Oscars, including Best Picture, and Sheen was highly praised for his performance. Following the success of this movie, Sheen’s career took a turn for the best. After appearing in numerous high-grossing films, Sheen was even given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the mid-90s.
Richard Kind Has Said Great Things About His Experience Working with Charlie Sheen on Spin City
In 2000, Charlie Sheen got to debut on the small screen by replacing Michael J. Fox for the last two seasons of the sitcom Spin City. The series features a fictionalized version of New York City’s local government, following its mayor Randall Winston (Barry Bostwick) and his staff as they run the city, although the real person in charge turns out to be Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty (originally portrayed by Fox).
Richard Kind, who played press secretary Paul Lassiter in the show, recently spoke up about what it was like to work with Sheen in this sitcom. “Charlie was such a good guy, a hard worker, knew his lines backwards and forwards,” Kind revealed in an interview when he was asked about what he thought when Sheen joined the cast of Spin City to replace Fox.
Kind highlighted that he thought that Sheen was a promising actor when they worked together. It’s no wonder that the Two and a Half Men star was nominated for two ALMA Awards and won his first Golden Globe for his performance on this series.
Richard Kind Isn’t the Only Actor Who Has Said Great Thing About Working with Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen’s career took a turn for the worst in the 2010s after a series of scandals. In 2011, the production of Two and a Half Men went on hiatus while Sheen underwent a substance rehabilitation program in his home.
Later that year, CBS announced they’d be canceling the season's four remaining episodes after Sheen publicly made offensive comments about the series's creator, Chuck Lorre. Plus, Warner Bros. had banned Sheen from entering its production lot. Ultimately Sheen was replaced by Ashton Kutcher.
Following his controversial departure from the show, many of his co-stars were asked what it had been like to work with Sheen. Like Richard Kind, Melanie Lynskey had only great things to say about the actor. “He was a very, very generous actor to work with and was always very kind to me,” the Yellowjackets actress told Fox News.
In addition to this, Lynskey praised Sheen for how he used to prepare for shooting. “He's the only actor I've ever worked with, I think, who was off-book for every rehearsal. And there's no point being off-book when you're doing a sitcom because it gets rewritten after every time you rehearse it. But he would learn the lines so he could be present and feel it out properly,” Lynskey told Buzzfeed.
And in 2011, Taylor Holland, who played Sheen’s mother on Two and a Half Men, told The Associated Press, "Charlie was cordial and polite with all of his cast mates and crew, sometimes even courtly -- and always witty.”
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