Two and a Half Men's Angus T. Jones Nearly Unrecognizable in Rare Sighting
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:01 Two and a half men's Angus T. Jones,
00:03 all grown up and unrecognizable in a rare public outing.
00:07 - Dear.
00:08 - What?
00:09 - Dear.
00:10 - What?
00:11 - Dear, D-E-E-R.
00:15 - What, W-H-A-T?
00:16 (audience laughing)
00:18 He's just really silly and he doesn't really get much at all
00:22 and I think that's just really what they like about Jake.
00:25 - The show's half man, now a full-blown adult.
00:28 That's Angus out and about in LA,
00:30 rocking a gray hoodie and black shorts and a full beard.
00:34 A much different look from his child star days.
00:36 - Raise it five.
00:37 - You raised $5 on that?
00:42 - I call five dollars.
00:43 (audience laughing)
00:46 Queens, all of nines.
00:47 - All right.
00:48 - Hey kid, don't you know what a full house is?
00:51 - Yeah, and I also know what a psych out is.
00:53 (audience laughing)
00:55 - Angus was just 10 years old
00:56 when he started playing Jake Harper back in 2003
00:59 on the CBS hit.
01:01 - You hungry?
01:02 - What are we having?
01:03 - I don't know, just tell me if you're hungry.
01:05 - That depends on what we're having.
01:06 (audience laughing)
01:07 - Okay, what do you want?
01:08 - What do you got?
01:09 (audience laughing)
01:11 - He's not hungry.
01:12 (audience laughing)
01:13 - I don't really remember my thoughts
01:15 when I first walked in.
01:17 We got a call and came in
01:19 and I did another read for producers, I think,
01:22 and then as we were walking out,
01:26 they came running out and said,
01:26 "You got it, you got it,"
01:28 and it was really exciting.
01:30 And here we are now.
01:33 - In 2010, he became the highest paid child actor
01:35 in television history at 17,
01:38 earning a reported $300,000 per episode.
01:42 - I'm not sleeping with my dad.
01:44 - When you go to college, you'll have a roommate.
01:46 - Yeah, but it won't be you.
01:47 - Come on, it'll be just like that time we went camping.
01:49 - I was 10 and it was the worst weekend of my life.
01:52 - Hey, I didn't enjoy it either,
01:53 but it's a father-son memory we'll share forever.
01:56 - But fast forward to 2012,
01:58 Angus bashed the series at a video
02:00 shared on a religious website.
02:02 - If you watch Two and a Half Men,
02:03 please stop watching Two and a Half Men.
02:05 I'm on Two and a Half Men, I don't wanna be on it.
02:08 Please stop watching it.
02:09 Please stop filling your head with filth.
02:13 - He later apologized for the comments,
02:15 which came during an apparent spiritual awakening
02:18 for the actor.
02:19 - I really wanna be able to come into the light
02:22 and because I know that's where genuine healing is.
02:25 - He's part of the show, he's part of our family.
02:27 We love him.
02:28 - I love him.
02:29 - Can't really disagree with him,
02:30 but the show's kinda filthy.
02:31 - Right, right.
02:32 - So it's not like, you know,
02:33 what he said wasn't wrong, might have been indiscreet,
02:36 but we aspired to funny filth.
02:39 - Exactly.
02:40 - So what are you gonna do?
02:41 - Angus appeared in a few more episodes after that,
02:44 but officially left the show in 2014,
02:46 though he did come back for the series finale.
02:49 (audience cheering)
02:50 - Oh my God, oh my God!
02:51 Oh my God!
02:52 - Hey, how you doing?
02:53 - Thank you for watching!
02:54 - Hey!
02:55 - Hey, what are you doing here?
02:56 - Yeah, I thought you were in the army.
02:58 - Come on, look at me.
02:59 Do I look like someone who's in the army?
03:00 (audience laughing)
03:01 - Eight years later, Angus continues to live
03:03 a low-key life out of the spotlight.
03:05 (upbeat music)
03:08 (upbeat music)
03:10 (upbeat music)