{"id":10653,"date":"2011-12-31T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=10653"},"modified":"2011-12-31T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:15:53","slug":"behind-the-scenes-charlie-sheen-rescued-dads-brothers-inspiring-movie-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/12\/behind-the-scenes-charlie-sheen-rescued-dads-brothers-inspiring-movie-the-way","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes, Charlie Sheen rescued dad’s, brother’s inspiring movie “The Way”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Troubled, controversial actor Charlie Sheen stepped in and saved brother Emilio Estevez’s inspirational movie The Way<\/em> which stars their dad, Martin Sheen.<\/p>\n

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Charlie, Martin and Emilio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAt a critical point,\u201d says Martin, when Charlie’s big brother Emilio did not have enough money to re-edit the film for release, Charlie \u201ccame through with the dough for it, and we\u2019re deeply indebted to him for that. He\u2019s one of our biggest supporters in this film, and we couldn\u2019t have done it without him,\u201d Martin told Catholic Herald<\/a><\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

Martin was born\u00a0Ram\u00f3n Antonio Gerard Est\u00e9vez, but took the stage name Martin Sheen shortly before starring in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Academy Award-winning film Apocalypse Now<\/em>, choosing his professional last name in honor of Catholic TV pioneer Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Martin’s father, Francisco Estevez, was a native of Spain, where The Way<\/em> takes place. The Way<\/em> tells of a\u00a0bereaved father who goes on hiking pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St James in northern Spain. It stars Martin as the dad and Emilio as the late son. The film was directed by Emilio.<\/p>\n

Charlie was born Carlos Irwin Estevez.\u00a0As a \u00a0boy, he made amateur Super 8 films with his big brother and school friends Rob Lowe and Sean Penn under his birth name. Just before graduation, he was expelled from school for poor grades and attendance. Deciding to become an actor, he took\u00a0his father’s professional last name.<\/p>\n

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Martin Sheen in "The Way"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rescuing an inspirational movie isn’t exactly within Charlie’s public image. The actor plays the rogue in such films as Red Dawn, Young Guns,\u00a0Platoon, Wall Street<\/em> and Major League.<\/em> As Charlie Harper on the TV situation comedy\u00a0Two and a Half Men<\/em>, he played the alcohol-soaked cad Charlie Harper who brought giggling one-night stands home to an apartment shared with a dim-witted teenage nephew and the boy’s aimless, divorced father.\u00a0In that role, Sheen was the highest paid actor on television, earning $1.8 million per episode.<\/p>\n

His personal life mirrored the show as he flaunted alcohol and drug abuse and paraded before the cameras multiple live-in girlfriends, who he called his “goddesses.” He was kicked off the show after a very public dispute with producer Chuck Lorre.\u00a0He subsequently went on a highly publicized in-your-face nationwide tour in which he mocked his detractors and justified his behavior.<\/p>\n

His father told the Catholic Herald<\/em> that The Way<\/em> could not have been released without Charlie riding to the rescue. Martin told the magazine that\u00a0the inspirational film, which reflects Martin’s deeply Catholic faith, was a family project not funded by any major studio. When they\u00a0ran out of money, Charlie stepped up without being asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that that should be known about him along with everything else,\u201d Martin said, adding that Charlie\u00a0is \u201ctraveling a slightly different road from some of us \u2013 he\u2019s on a different Camino, let\u2019s say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re all pilgrims, after all,” said Martin, “and his journey is not over yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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