I didn’t know I was so close to death: Martin Sheen

“When we got the pick-up for season three, the producers told us we all needed to have a complete physical – blood tests, stress tests, the whole nine yards,” Martin said.

“And thank God for that, because I found out I was in really bad shape. I could have been dead on a sidewalk somewhere.”

But his co-star Sam Waterson insists the comedy has extended his life and the lives of Sheen and their TV wives Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin – because they’re always having a ball on set.

“Jane, Lily, Martin and I report for work and basically laugh our way through the entire day,” he explains.

“It’s such a pleasure at this stage of our lives to finally be over it – over the business and especially over ourselves. We’re just glad to be alive. The best, most marvellous thing about our show is that it’s a reminder of how precious little time we all have.”

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