Two and a half men did they make alan gay
Ashton Kutcher's character marries guy on 'Two and a Half Men'
BEVERLY HILLS – The two men on Two and a Half Men are looking to get married.
The characters, Walden (Ashton Kutcher) and Alan (Jon Cryer), aren't lgbtq+, but a marriage between them is seen as a means to achieving Walden's goal of adopting a child, CBS program chief Nina Tassler said Thursday at the Television Critics Association summer urge tour.
As Walden, who begins the comedy's final season in "a bit of an existential crisis," enters the adoption process, he "realizes it's very complex to adopt a infant as a single, vertical man. So, once and for all, he decides, 'I'm going to suggest to Alan. We're going to get married and adopt a child as a gay couple,' " Tassler said.
Asked if some might find such a story line offensive, Tassler said it reflects evolving developments in the culture.
"I think it's a very positive statement. 'You perceive what, I am going to adopt a youngster as a gay couple. The reality is we can do that,' " she said. "In a universe where at one point you couldn't execute that and now you can do that, I think that's a much more positive statement."
Tassler said there have been no conversations abou
Jon Cryer enjoyed a very long sprint on the strike CBS series, "Two and a Half Men." And now that it's over, he's telling the whole truth about his career. Ben Tracy sat him down for this Sunday Profile:
"It seems that in your life there are three things that people always earn wrong about you," said Ben Tracy. "They think you're Jewish. They ponder you're gay. And they think you are Matthew Broderick."
"Yes," laughed Cryer. "I'm a Jewish, lgbtq+ Matthew Broderick."
In reality, Jon Cryer is not any of those things. What he is, is an actor coming off the biggest success of his career.
For 12 seasons he played Alan Harper on the hit CBS sitcom, "Two and a Half Men." The show ended its run in February, and Cryer decided to pen a memoir, "So That Happened" (New American Library), about all the things that have happened to him during 30 years in show business -- some more R rated than PG.
The book's dedication reads: "To my attractive children, Charlie and Daisy. (Please don't read the part about the prostitute.)"
"Yes, well, I thought I'd donate 'em a tiny heads-up," Cryer laughed. "You know, as my five-year-old is going, 'Oh, okay, this isn't "Dr. Seuss," Dad.' I really felt lik
Go Inside the Controversial 'Two and a Half Men' Queer Wedding
The stars of Two and a Half Men are going to express, "I do" before their official adieu from the series. To each other.
The long-running CBS comedy is poised to debut their 12th and final season Thursday, Oct. 30, with a saunter down the corridor when its two heterosexual leads Walden (Ashton Kutcher) and Alan (Jon Cryer) get married. That's right — we said it: married.
ET's Rocsi Diaz was behind the scenes on Walden and Alan's big night to witness all of the smiles, tears, and wedding day surprises. We even tested the co-stars' knowledge with our version of The Newlywed Game and dug thick into the ET vault to shock Cryer with a Pretty in Pink flashback — his very first interview with Entertainment Tonight!
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Diaz talked to the grooms about taking their bond to the next level. "We've had a wedding almost every season, yet I've managed to remain single," Cryer remarked with a smile. "This might be the one that sticks."
So why is Two and a Half Men opting to boot off the season with these sudden, platonic nuptials? &ldquo
Chuck Lorre Explains Two and a Half Men’s Queer Marriage Storyline
Last summer, when Chuck Lorre announced there would be a gay marriage on the last season of his long-running CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, a predictable uproar ensued. The problem was that the union involved two heterosexual men—original co-star Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen’s replacement, Ashton Kutcher—undergoing what Lorre openly called a “scam” marriage in order to adopt a child, a process the show suggested was next to unworkable for a straight, solo man, even a billionaire like Kutcher’s character, Walden Schmidt.
Although the show has generally taken the shallow road in its 12 years on the breeze, Lorre made an endeavor to avoid offense with this storyline—by Two and a Half Men standards at least. As when the show introduced a lesbian character in 2013 and when it explored a transsexual storyline that same year, the writers for the most part avoided the kind of cheap humor that permeates the rest of the show. When Walden proposed to Cryer’s Alan Harper back in November, he told him he had “nine of the 10 things” he wanted in a wife. However, the 10th ingredient was off the table: “We will actually be
Two And A Half Men: 10 Questions About Alan, Answered
Two and a Half Men was one of the most successful tv shows of its time, while also battling a steady deluge of criticism from critics for its crass humor, objectification of women, the glorification of lead character Charlie Harper's decadent lifestyle, and leading man Charlie's Sheen's notoriously explosive private life.
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Despite the controversies, the exhibit kept chugging along until its twelfth season. In all that time, the only constant was Charlie's sibling Alan, who went from playing second fiddle to his brother to essentially becoming the show's lead. Here are 10 questions that are finally answered about the longest recurring character on the show.
Is He Really A Doctor?
Not really, no. Although Alan would vigorously try to convince you otherwise. He is a chiropractor, with a degree in the field from a foreign school of extremely dubious reputation. Alan likes to think he is just as good of a doctor as anyone else and rues the fact that society and his brother, in particular, are always making fun of his profession while accusing him of practicing qua