"All I said was, ‘That's f--king great!'" Lorre told us. "It's timely and it has a heartbeat. Ashton's character because it's Ashton and Ashton is a man with a huge heart, he's really engaged in social welfare. He puts a lot of time and money into getting better. And we're getting the spirit of that into the show. This seems like the next logicial step. Not romance, not sex, raising a child."
Jon Cryer himself admitted that initially, he was thrown by the idea of a gay marriage for his character, but then warmed up to it. (See the video above.) "The first time I heard it I said, WHAT?!" he told E! News on the CBS party carpet. "And then I thought, ‘Oh yeah it kind of makes sense, because last season Alan's wedding fell apart and Ashton's wedding has fallen apart. The writers have a good idea and it opens up a lot of doors. Two heterosexual guys who are getting married because they want to have a kid together. OK. Why not? You know, I'm sure it's gonna happen. I can't imagine that kind of thing won't be happening in real life at some point."
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Lorre particularly likes the idea because it brings the show back full circle to its namesake, after the loss three years ago of star Charlie Sheen.
"I thought it was both very funny and heartwarming that these guys would go to such great lengths to get a kid out of the foster system and give him a home," Lorre explained. "Yes, there's some subterfuge in doing that, they are gaming the system, but the intention is to give a child a home, and it brings the series back to being about two men teaching a young man to become a man."
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