When actors behave like rock stars
We are pretty used to see musicians and especially rock stars like Kurt Cobain, Pete Doherty or Amy Winehouse being open-minded towards their drug addiction. Some of us might even say that a real rock star has to be on drugs most of the time because that’s simply what we expect from them living a wild lifestyle.
It’s not a secret that many actors are also addicted to drugs, but most of them at least try to hide it. Looking at Charlie Sheen, you can’t really say if he is just acting as Charlie Harper in the TV series “Two and a Half Men” or if it’s just a documentary about his lifestyle – being a drug addicted alcoholic in his everyday life as well.
He is not trying to hide is drug abuse; he even does that for to promote himself with that.
After he got fired by CBS and Warner Bros. on 7th March, he went wild on the internet:
Attacking his former Producers, setting a new Guinness World Record for the fastest time to achieve 1 Million followers on Twitter or appearing in a “Funny or Die: Charlie Sheens Winning Recipes” video . Following his “Winning Recipes” a website called sheenthis.com went online to “let Charlie Sheen work his warlock win magic for your boring and loosing website”.
Looking at the fact that you might expect such behavior from rock stars – why won’t you expect something like that for actors? His activities support himself as an actor – being honest to who he really is. Not that really needs to earn more money, being the highest paid TV actor per episode ever; it also opens new acting possibilities for him: We as an audience sometimes expect some kind of behavior or image of the actors in movies or TV series.
Looking at John Wayne, you expect him to act as a cowboy in a Western – so why not having Charlie Sheen being the ideal actor for drug addicted alcoholics? Who doesn’t want to see him in the cinema or TV again after his YouTube videos?
Let’s see where this story will develop in the next weeks. Maybe we will be able to see him on screen again; maybe he’ll be death before. In the end he does his job: entertain us.
