Show A iiwiuv I w J !k' I asked Cryer about the dad he plays “I’m happy with my character” said Jon “He’s fairly complex They’ve given him a lot of depth and I like it that he’s still in love with his Cryer and Sheen had previously 'LT ex-wif- worked together in the 1991 film Hot Shots! What was that like? “We were work friends’’ said Jon “But char was a different time He arid! were traveling in different circles These days Charlie a new father himself has a more pre-dictable life” Jon and Charlie’s latest collaboration is not only a critical winner ' but also has been in TV’s Top 10 “I didn’t know what it was like Jon Cryer graw up on the Upper Wert Side of eonof Gratchan and David Cryer DOU1 IWli - i nv nanoM f iLa pWIVI0NWS VN aw a 1— Drm non School of Sdoncn vhoro he already knew he wanted to be an actor too ajon noppao college "to my mom's greet he end went to to atudy London to be oh a hit” drama at the Cryer said “but it’s nice You be- come emotionally attached to a TV show and when it doesn’ t get an audience it hurts” Jon should know having starred in of Dramatic Arts "The bde of money wn ipeMu- Jon “But said it wne Royal Academy agrae program end a ddferanttahe on acting than bbert The Famous Teddy hie Z Partners The Trouble With Nor- - mal and Getting all of them canceled Of course he has had his winners the film Pretty in Pink and the Broadway Personal— EAMED UPtlTTH CHARUE SHEEN and a cop supporting case 39-yea- r-' old Jon Cryer may be the only star of a hirsircom this season rohaye honed his craft at London’s Royal " Academy of Dramatic Arcs CBS series Twoanda In Jon’s Monday-nigHalfMenhe plays a neurotic recently separated husband described in one review as a “spineless son chiropractor’’ He moves with his ' into the Malibiu beachfront bachelor paid of his brother a successfuljingle writer played by Sheen : ‘ ht Jon Cryer plays a dad on CBSfe hit sitcom Twoanda Half Men In real life he has old a who says Jon “prefers to watch play Torch Song Trilogy among them ' One role Cryer didn’t get went to Matthew JVrty bn a TV project that would eventually be titled Friends Jon auditioned from London He said he ' was awakened at 3 am and asked ito make an audition tape which ended up reaching the producers too hue “I was exhausted and my cape Was so ctappy”Jon said “And who knows if I’d have been cast maybe Friends would have flopped” Oyer has no regrets! “All the jobs I’ve had IVe loved” he said I’m happy with toy life” Jon otight to be happy these days with' talk around CBS that Two and a Half Men could become a network linchpin whenever Everybody Loves Raymond ends irs great run H For more on Jon Cryor visit and dkk on "In Step wjth1 the Cartoon Network” pandocom Dele in die 1986 teen comedf ' " nijfilmin rwiK was That — 1 1 I— 1 foloiMsdl by s lanp strinp af Mmsand vODTnii mmh led to hie current role on Two anda Had Men Cryer said having a eon of hbOMiihdp8 MmvMihb rtiow: Tve homed it’s for me to be a parent then my son's paL” Oyer's eon Charts loves rtiMng Paddy on the job "That's haveabigfcke ocean bei dm set” V PHOTO BY JUSTIN STEPHENS FOR PARADE STYLING BY MICHAEL OOFFOLETT1 FOR CELESTME AGENCY PROP STYLING BY JOHN MHJJiAUSER GROOMING BY CHARLES DUJIC FOR BUMBLE 8 BUMBLE CLOUTIER AGENCY SUIT BY EMPORIO ARMANI SHIRT BY RAUL SMDH TIE BY DOLCE ft GABBANA PAGE 22 LLi APSIL 18 2004 :G33v'T---V- :‘ PARADE |