Jon Cryer

Jon Cryer

Jon Cryer had just minutes to determine whether he and new Two And A Half Men co-star Ashton Kutcher had comedy chemistry, because TV bosses "threw everything together" within a matter of days.
  
Kutcher was announced as fired Charlie Sheen's replacement on the hit sitcom on 13 May (11) and the Just Married actor made his public debut as a cast member at a TV industry event less than a week later, hitting the stage at the CBS Upfronts alongside Cryer and teenage co-star Angus T. Jones.
   
Cryer admits they had little time to bond as programme bosses rushed to fill Sheen's spot and stick to their tight production schedule in order to get the show back on air by the end of the year (11).
   
He tells U.S. TV host David Letterman, "We had a very quick meeting to see if we could deal with each other and we could.

"They threw everything together very quickly, so they had to fly us to New York to put us in front of advertisers for the Upfronts, so we got the CBS corporate jet."
   
Cryer became a little worried things wouldn't work out quite as well as he'd hoped after Kutcher made a playful comment onboard the flight.
   
Cryer jokes, "What gave me pause was, Ashton came on the plane (and) he said, 'Ah, you know what I love about private jets? You can bring knives onboard!' Yeah... that's what I love about private jets!"
   
Production on the new Two and a Half Men series begins in August (11).