How to ruin a career in one day: how a boy was fired from “Two and a Half Men”
$300,000 per episode. That’s how much Angus T. Jones, the boy from Two and a Half Men, earned during seasons 8 and 9 of the series, earning about $8 million. I just sixteen years and life is decidedat least that’s what we all thought. By then he was no longer the chubby and funny child of yesteryear, but a teenager and nothing else, but yes.If there’s one thing teenagers are good at, it’s failing..
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If Jones was offered such a contract, it was because it was 2012 and Two and a Half Men had just fired Charlie Sheen. The actor and the character seemed one and the same and there were contradictions in real life with alcohol, drugs and women They didn’t like CBS, who decided to drop him and replace him with Aston Kutcher. The show couldn’t afford another major loss and wanted to give Jake Harper a bigger role and more mature stories. It was his big bet replace “child effect” for the grace of seeing him follow in his uncle’s footsteps after years of bad teaching.
What CBS didn’t count on was that Jones had to become deeply religious and not from any doctrine, but from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Do you think they combined conservative beliefs with. swearing, substance use and sexual relations What did his character brag about on TV? Needless to say, it’s bad. But even in this case, perhaps the situation would not have escalated and would not have gone beyond the private sphere if the actor had not made the following statements:
“If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching it. I’m filming a series and I don’t want to participate in it. Please stop watching this stop filling your head with this nonsenseAngus T. Jones blurted out in a 2012 interview with Forerunner Chronicles. “People say it’s just fun, but do some research.” the effect of television on your brain. I promise you that once you meet them, you will make better decisions about what you consume.” Charlie Sheen himself, who was no longer interested in Two and a Half Men (he had already been fired by then and had no reason to defend the series), commented: “Angus’s mistake can be compared to the mistake of those who followed the sect of Halley’s Comet, those who ultimately committed suicide.“
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You can imagine the consequences. The actor was fired disappeared from the series in recent seasonsin which he was only allowed to make a cameo appearance in the final episode and after a preliminary public apology, where he explained that there was a great team behind Two and a Half Men who worked very hard and he didn’t deserve his words. But things went further as Angus T. Jones didn’t work in television again until seven years later, in 2023, where he appeared in an episode of The Booker, in which he was paired with Charlie Sheen and both paid tribute to the iconic pilot film “Two and a Half Men”.
Nothing more was heard from Jones. far from the public sphere and performances, unrecognizable and dedicated today to religioncharitable purposes, as well as pleasure and peace of mind from the money earned. “I no longer feel like I might step on a mine with every step I take.” was the last thing taken from him. “I’m happy and enjoying where I am.”
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