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Charlie Sheen<\/strong> revisited one of his most personal Hollywood setbacks while reflecting on his early career. The actor opened up about losing the lead role in Born on the Fourth of July<\/strong> to Tom Cruise<\/strong>. He described the experience as a moment of \u201cbetrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n Charlie Sheen recalled feeling a \u201cbetrayal\u201d after losing the lead role in Born on the Fourth of July to Tom Cruise. <\/strong>\u201cThe thing that is weird is [director Oliver Stone] said, \u2018I want you to do Born on the Fourth,\u2019\u201d Sheen told Graham Bensinger in a YouTube interview on October 29. He said he had multiple meetings with Stone and Ron Kovic, whose autobiography inspired the 1989 film. The communication then abruptly stopped.<\/p>\n Sheen later contacted Stone\u2019s office and learned the director was in Cuba. Soon after, his brother Emilio Estevez called and told him, \u201cCruise is doing Born on the Fourth.\u201d Sheen initially thought something tragic had happened, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a movie,\u201d but he admitted the loss meant \u201ca big deal\u201d to him.<\/p>\n Sheen said his friendship with Cruise at the time made the news harder. \u201cIt was also the betrayal factor of it,\u201d he explained, noting Stone\u2019s long-standing admiration for Cruise. \u201cIt\u2019s a different movie if Tom does it than if I do it.\u201d He added that he had never signed a contract, saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t lose something you never had.\u201d<\/p>\n The actor confronted Stone later at a bar, where the director told him, \u201cI just felt like you didn\u2019t have any passion for it.\u201d Sheen responded, \u201cHow do you know how much passion I lost if we never talked about it again?\u201d Despite the disappointment, Sheen praised Cruise\u2019s portrayal of Kovic, calling it \u201cbrilliant\u201d and saying he \u201cshould have won the freaking Oscar.\u201d<\/p>\n Born on the Fourth of July earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Cruise.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Vritti Johar on Mandatory.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Charlie Sheen Talks About Losing Movie Role to Tom Cruise<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Charlie Sheen revisited one of his most personal Hollywood setbacks while reflecting on his early career. 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