Charlie Sheen Gets Candid In First Trailer For Revelatory Two-Part Netflix Documentary

There's famous. There's infamous. And then there's Charlie Sheen. Across a chaotic career spanning over four decades, the man with 'tiger blood' has lit up the big screen in Wall Street, Young Guns, and Platoon, and been the highest paid actor on the box as star of Two And A Half Men. He's also done just about every drug known to man, had several high-profile run-ins with the law, and tattooed the word 'Winning' on his forearm. But now, seven years deep into his sobriety journey, Sheen is set to open up about the peaks and pitfalls of life as one of the screen's biggest stars — and the tabloid's biggest targets — in aka Charlie Sheen, a new tell-all two-part Netflix documentary from director Andrew Renzi. And you can check out the suitably eye-widening trailer for it below;

"How do I present this with any class?" asks a welcomely clear-eyed Sheen in the first trailer for his new doc. "I think we're past that, Charlie," replies Renzi. And while the clips of Sheen with cigarettes hanging out of his mouth, ears, and nose — or ripped to the tits on illicit substances — that follow certainly suggest we're in for a hair-raising ride through the life and times of a star that's burned bright and burned out more times than most, this actually does look to be a pretty classily done confessional-cum-clarifier on all things Sheen. There's talking heads aplenty (Chuck Lorre, Denise Richards, Sean Penn, Chris Tucker, and Charlie's drug dealer Marco all appear here), an abundance of candid archival footage, and — at the centre of it all — Sheen himself, looking to be on fine form as he digs deep to exorcise his demons, set the record straight, and show some of the findings of his last near-decade of soul searching with viewers.

“A guy like [Charlie] has a lot to offer the world with [his] story,” says Renzi in a piece accompanying the new trailer on Netflix's website. “A lot of times we are scared of hearing from people who have done things we might not agree with, when in reality we should be listening to them. Who better to reveal these kinds of things and to talk about these missteps? I find that to be a beautiful arc.” We'll be all ears when aka Charlie Sheen lands on the streamer on 10 September.