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Charlie Sheen<\/strong> admitted he felt “betrayal” after losing a role in Born on the Fourth of July<\/em> to Tom Cruise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n During a recent interview on the\u00a0“In Depth with Graham Bensinger<\/a>”\u00a0podcast, Sheen, 60, revealed that his brother Emilio Estevez <\/strong>broke the news to him that Cruise, 63, had been cast in the role he was auditioning for.<\/p>\n At the time, Sheen had already made a name for himself after he starred in 1986’s\u00a0Platoon and<\/em>\u00a01987’s\u00a0Wall Street<\/em>. Not being cast in Born on the Fourth of July<\/em> was especially hurtful, as the 1989 movie was directed by his former collaborator Oliver Stone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n After noting that he worked with Stone, 79, and had a relationship with him, he admitted he thought the role of Sergeant Ron Kovi was his.<\/p>\n \u201cEmilio, he calls me. He says, \u2018Hey, man. You sitting down?\u2019 And I think somebody died, right?\u201d Sheen recalled. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018No, what\u2019s going on?\u2019 He says, \u2018Cruise is doing Born on the Fourth<\/em>.'”<\/p>\n Sheen continued, “I love that Emilio thought that I needed to be seated to get news he thought was going to make me faint. I mean, what are we doing here? It\u2019s a movie.”<\/p>\n The Two and a Half Men<\/em> actor went on to note that it was just a role, though it didn’t mean he wasn’t upset by the news.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, it was also the betrayal factor of it,\u201d Sheen said. \u201cSo I was like, \u2018Okay, all right.\u2019 You know, Oliver\u2019s been a fan of Tom\u2019s for a long time. It\u2019s a different movie if Tom does it than if I do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Sheen implied he got his hopes up about the role by sharing that he and Stone “had meetings” about the movie, but then he “stopped hearing from him.”<\/p>\n \u201cWe stopped talking about it, and I reach out to Oliver<\/a>, and I\u2019m told that he\u2019s in Cuba. Whatever,” he said. “This is like 1988 or \u201989, right? I\u2019m like, \u2018Okay, well, tell him I\u2019m looking for him.'”<\/p>\n Sheen also said that he’s since come to terms with not booking the role. “You can\u2019t lose something you never had,\u201d he noted. \u201cI didn\u2019t sign a contract. There was a handshake.\u201d<\/p>\n Parade Daily\ud83c\udfac\u00a0<\/strong>SIGN UP for Parade\u2019s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\ud83c\udfac<\/strong><\/p>\n However, Sheen did reveal that he later confronted Stone about the casting decision after he was drinking.<\/p>\n \u201cI stopped in and he was there, and I was drunk enough<\/a> and he was drunk enough for that thing to finally be brought up,\u201d Sheen said. \u201cAnd he was like, \u2018I just felt like you didn\u2019t have any passion for it. I felt like you lost interest.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Well, I didn\u2019t see you. How do you know how much passion I lost or interest that evaporated if we never talked about it again?'”<\/p>\n Cruise was eventually nominated for an Oscar<\/a> for the role, which Sheen said made it easier for him to accept that the part wasn’t right for him.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like a thing where I\u2019m going to talk s–t about him, because then you see the movie and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, okay. All right. He turned it into that,'” Sheen said.<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cWhen someone gets a job and does that with it, you\u2019re just like, of course. You don\u2019t sit there and dissect it and like, \u2018I\u2019d have done that better.\u2019 No, go f–k yourself. That\u2019s a brilliant [performance] \u2014 and you should have won the freaking Oscar.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Nov 8, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. 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