“I used to be nervous, but almost as soon as we began talking, I remembered, we were friends once,” Lorre recalled. “And that friendship just suddenly gave the impression to be there again. I don’t need to be too mawkish about it, nevertheless it was healing. And he was also totally game to make fun of himself. When he got here to the table read of that episode, I walked up, and we hugged. It was just great.”
And never only did they make amends, but Lorre said Sheen, 58, “proceeded to kill it” through the script reading.
“His chops were just so finely tuned,” the producer shared of Sheen, who Variety said was unable to talk on his reconciliation with Lorre on account of the continued strike, “as if we had not missed a beat.”