10 TV Storylines Actors REFUSED To Do
7. Charlie Comes Back From The Dead (And Then Dies For Real) - Two & A Half Men
Charlie Sheen was fired from hit sitcom Two and a Half Men at the end of its eighth season, at which point his protagonist Charlie Harper was replaced with a new lead - downtrodden billionaire Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher).
The ninth season's first episode also revealed that Charlie was killed in a Paris subway "accident" - heavily implied to have actually been murdered by his obsessive stalker Rose (Melanie Lynskey).
When the show finally wrapped up with its twelfth season a few years later, there was intense speculation about whether or not Sheen would return to bury the hatchet with the show's creator, Chuck Lorre.
And as it turned out, Sheen was indeed invited back to reprise the role of Charlie, in a plot which would've seen him reveal that he was actually still alive. He'd then deliver a meta rant about his drug use and apparent "invincibility" - he's got tiger blood, after all - before being killed for real by a falling piano.
Sheen wasn't interested in Lorre's idea for Charlie's return and swift re-exit, suggesting instead that his comeback be more heart-warming and provide a setup for a spin-off series, The Harpers, starring himself and Jon Cryer.
Lorre was committed to his original idea, though, and so the scene was instead shot with a stand-in, minus the planned rant.
But in an attempt to make it feel a little more even-handed, after Charlie was crushed by a piano, Lorre himself appeared on screen and was flattened in a similar fashion.
Sheen wasn't at all happy that Lorre still went through with the basic idea despite him rejecting it, calling Lorre "immature" and "unevolved."
The series' final moments certainly proved divisive with fans, many of whom decried Lorre for allowing his personal spat with Sheen to define the show's ending.