Calling all actors — now casting goddesses for television series to appear on the FX cable network. Those with tiger blood in their veins or Adonis DNA are strongly encouraged to audition for “Anger Management,” starring Charlie Sheen.
That’s right. Charlie Sheen has a new television series.
The troubled actor who’s career publicly imploded when he fell out with the producers of Two And A Half Men and went on a rambling 20-city Torpedo of Truth Tour, has signed to make 10 episodes for the cable network. If those do well, the network has agreed to order an additional 100 episodes.
“Well, I’m not crazy. Anymore. That was an episode. I think I’m a different person than I was yesterday,” Sheen told reporters at the Fox Network Television Critics Association party on Sunday.
The show is loosely based on the 2003 film of the same name that starred Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler. In the movie, Sandler plays a man wrongly convicted of assault and sentenced to attend anger management courses run by a sadistic therapist, played by Nicholson.
“I spent a year in anger management, so I’ve already done my research,” Sheen said.
As a producer of the show, Sheen’s also involved in casting his co-stars.
Anger Management still needs actors to play Sheen’s character’s therapist, his ex-wife, his 13-year-old daughter, and two groups of patients in anger management therapy.
The ex-wife and therapist are “in their late 30s to mid 40s,” Sheen said. “So it will probably be someone who had experience and that you’ll know.”
“I just wanted to do a show and play a character that dealt with more mature themes, that dealt with stuff that actually exists in the real world,” Sheen said. “A lot of times on the other show I felt like we were servicing the comedy and not allowing it to come out of character.”