They’re brothers until the end. Emilio Estevez didn’t appear Charlie Sheen‘s Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, which recounted his turbulent life in the spotlight filled with drugs and controversies.
Both actors are the sons of Martin Sheen and Janet Templeton, so their entire life has been in show business. Sheen and Estevez have worked together for quite some time as actors starring in projects like Wisdom (1986), Young Guns (1988), Men at Work (1990), and the 2000 TV movie Rated X.
The whole family supports one another in their endeavors, however in the documentary, it featured a line that read “Martin Sheen and Emilio Estévez declined to participate.” People who participated in the documentary included his ex-wife Denise Richards and Two and a Half Men co-star Jon Cryer and creator Chuck Lorre.
Why wasn’t Emilio Estevez in Charlie Sheen’s documentary?
Charlie Sheen revealed that his family chose not to be in the Netflix film because it would revisit his daunting past.
“Emilio and Dad, they fully support me. They’re rooting for me in ways you can’t even imagine. But I can’t expect people to revisit all the drug abuse and all the s—y choices that hurt the people I love,” the Two and a Half Men actor explained. “Would I love them both in this? Absolutely. But I completely understand why they chose not to.”
Despite The Breakfast Club star not appearing in the documentary and memoir The Book of Sheen, he had a conversation with Sheen that was featured in Interview Magazine. In the candid discussion, he talked about his initial reaction to seeing his brother’s life in his own eyes. “We grew up in the same house. We went to the same schools and acted in films together as adults. But there was so much that I found shocking and surprising in both works. In many cases, I felt like I was an outsider looking in, like I had nothing to do with the Estevez-Sheen family. Like, ‘Where the f—k was I?’ And mom said something similar to me a few days ago after she read the book—she didn’t use the word f—k.”
Sheen told his brother that the media that he created was a way for his story to be reintroduced to his fanbase. “I think it’s smart to recalibrate in that way,” Estevez responded. “Celebrity documentaries are like social media pages on steroids, that’s how I see them anyway. I think it’s important to know that the object of the documentary most often doesn’t get to have final cut before it hits the airwaves.”
