Actor Charlie Sheen has clarified recent remarks about having “sex with men,” addressing the topic in a new round of interviews promoting his memoir and Netflix docuseries.
Sheen first revealed his same-sex experiences in September while previewing his memoir The Book of Sheen and the new Netflix series aka Charlie Sheen. In both, the Two and a Half Men star discusses his history of drug use, relationships, sexual escapades, and ongoing efforts to confront his personal demons.
In both the book and documentary, Sheen says he “flipped the menu over” when it came to sex — often while under the influence of hard drugs.
On a recent episode of the podcast In Depth with Graham Bensinger, the thrice-married actor clarified the nature of his same-sex encounters.
“When people say ‘sex with men,’ you immediately think of, like, butt sex. Sorry to be graphic, but that’s kind of where the mind goes, right?” Sheen told Bensinger. “And it wasn’t that…. I don’t want to be like, ‘OK, I did this thing, but this and that part of it didn’t happen.’ But it didn’t.”
Sheen said he wasn’t clarifying his comments out of shame but because he wanted to be more specific about his experiences. “It’s just kind of like a, ‘Huh, [sex with men] is a bit of a broad category,'” the 60-year-old actor said.
Bensinger asked whether Sheen’s drug use made him “curious” to experiment with men, or if the curiosity existed beforehand and drugs simply lowered his inhibitions. Sheen didn’t give a direct answer.
“That’s a good question. Sitting here, I don’t really know,” he said. “I’m not going to say, ‘Oh yeah, it was absolutely the drugs,’ because there’s two schools of thought: that the drugs open doors that are somewhere already in that house, or, that they create them.”
Sheen added, “It never happened without insane amounts of crack.”
In the Netflix docuseries, Sheen says that publicly acknowledging his sexual encounters with men felt “fucking liberating,” framing his past drug use and sexual exploits as part of his life experience.
“So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was fucking fun, and life goes on,” he says. “Look at the state of the fucking world … The other side of that menu really fucking matters? If someone doesn’t want to hire me because ‘He did all that shit’? Whatever, didn’t want to work with you anyway.”
The amazing Oscar Isaac can produce magic on-camera, but the actor's overripe performance in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein fails to cast a spell.
Stunting his characteristic charisma to portray madly determined scientist Victor Frankenstein, Isaac still wields a brooding intensity and sensuality in the part. Outfitted in plush, body-con Victorian garb, his hair a tumble of curls as Frankenstein rages against his detractors, or feverishly saws parts off corpses, Isaac is ever the movie star.
But he's also wielding an extravagant "ye olde English" accent, aristocratic edition, that never once convinced me. Gothic horror, especially done to Grand Guignol excess as del Toro aims for here, certainly is no place for timidity. And Isaac's go-big performance isn't the only ham being served. Still, it's hard to get past him sounding like a more over-the-top Vincent Price. That mode works better for Charles Dance, portraying Baron Leopold Frankenstein, Victor's demanding, emotionally distant father, in flashbacks to the scientist's sad childhood.
Fashion designer Connor Ives says his now-iconic "Protect the Dolls" T-shirt -- first worn during the finale of his Fall/Winter 2025 ready-to-wear show in London -- has since raised more than $600,000 for the nonprofit Trans Lifeline. The design employs a decades-old phrase calling for solidarity with and protection of transgender women.
The shirt wasn’t originally intended as part of the collection. As Ives told The New York Times in April, he simply wanted "a T-shirt that says something" for the show, using the message as a call for solidarity with transgender people at a time when governments in the U.K. and U.S. were seeking to roll back rights.
For one brief, deranged moment, I actually considered asking ChatGPT to write a Tron: Ares review for this magazine. What could be more appropriate?
Naturally, I came to my senses. Like the AI in Tron: Ares, ChatGPT wouldn't be offering an actual opinion -- it can't sit in an IMAX theater (yet, I think) -- just a regurgitation of whatever it scraped from the web. And honestly, I couldn't care less what others think about Disney's film series. I only care what I think.
And here's what I think: it's trash. Pretty trash. Gleaming trash. Sleek trash. Trash with a kickass soundtrack. But trash, nonetheless.
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