Jon Cryer Admits He Had No Interest in Playing Alan as Long as Kelsey Grammer Played Frasier
By the time Two and a Half Men wrapped in early 2015, Cryer had played the broke, down-on-his-luck chiropractor for over a decade and had hit a wall with him.
“I had felt like I had done so much of Alan that I was starting to run out of places to go with the character,” he told People. “The writers had done amazing work coming up with new stuff and really doing wonderful things with the character, but I had become exhausted with it.”
The exhaustion came on top of years of turmoil. After Charlie Sheen’s public falling-out with creator Chuck Lorre and exit, Ashton Kutcher stepped in and the show ran four more seasons, with Cryer saying they “had to sort of remake what the show was.”
Now 61, Cryer says he was anxious to get back to playing other people. He pointed to Kelsey Grammer, who played Frasier Crane for two decades, and made clear that kind of single-character run was never what he wanted: “He’s a really singular talent.”
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