Charlie Sheen wouldn’t have been “on this fucking call” if he wasn’t sober.
The Platoon, Wall Street, Spin City and Two and a Half Men star tells The Hollywood Reporter as much while discussing his Netflix documentary, as well as his and Martin Sheen’s reaction to the finished product — which he has described as a “love letter” to his dad — alongside director Andrew Renzi.
In aka Charlie Sheen, the sober (and sobered) actor looks back at his formative — and party — years with surprising clarity. He doesn’t balk at questions about drug abuse, his HIV diagnosis or gay sex. With Charlie, stories that sound too wild to be true were mere hors d’oeuvres for the really crazy shit.
Part of Renzi’s job was to “figure out what the realities of this fever dream of a life really were,” he tells THR. He had some help.
A treasure trove of archival footage, including Super 8 films from Charlie’s childhood, featuring big brother Emilio Estevez and their good friends, actors Sean and Chris Penn, helped Renzi put the pieces together. But mostly it was Sheen’s “Virgo brain” that filled in the blanks where there definitely should have been more.
