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15 Years Ago, Hugh Grant Turned Down a Huge Payday to Replace Charlie Sheen on ‘Two and a Half Men’

Grant says he turned down a huge payday because producers wanted him to sign on before showing him a script.

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After Charlie Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men back in 2011, series creator Chuck Lorre made the interesting decision to keep the show going with a new lead character. Naturally, with such big shoes to fill, some equally huge names were thrown around as possible replacements for Sheen. Rob Lowe and John Stamos were rumored to have been approached, but were never actually in the running. And though he wasn’t really a contender at any point, Jason Alexander jokingly pitched himself to CBS by saying he’d “commence using cocaine in quantities large........

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