Charlie Sheen says ‘betrayal’ was behind losing role to Tom Cruise

Charlie Sheen recalled how his brother, Emilio Estevez, broke the information to him that he wouldn’t be starring in Oliver Stone’s 1989 battle drama, “Born on the Fourth of July.”

Previous to filming ‘Born on the Fourth of July’, Sheen starred back-to-back in two of Stone’s most iconic movies, 1986’s ‘Platoon’ and 1987’s ‘Wall Road’.

Throughout Thursday’s episode of “Expanded with Graham Bensinger‘, the 60-year-old actor stated he believed he and Stone, 79, had agreed that he would play real-life Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic within the movie, and he was shocked to study that the director had solid Tom Cruise as an alternative.

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Charlie Sheen mirrored on how he heard Tom Cruise had changed him in “Born on the Fourth of July.” (Arturo Holmes/Getty Pictures; Jamie McCarthy/WireImage)

‘Emilio, he is calling me. He says, “Hey man. Will you sit down?’ And I believe somebody died, proper?” Sheen stated. “I am like, ‘No, what is going on on?’ He says, “Cruise is doing ‘Born on the Fourth.'”

On the time, Sheen and Cruise knew one another as a result of they have been each a part of the identical younger Hollywood circle.

The 2 had mutual pals and have been usually talked about collectively within the media as rising stars of their technology. Moreover, Cruise stayed at Sheen and Estevez’s father Martin Sheen’s Malibu residence for a short while when he first arrived in Los Angeles.

Sheen instructed Bensinger that he was amused that Estevez had nervous a couple of stronger response from him when he heard Cruise had received the function.

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“I really like that Emilio thought I needed to sit down and get information that he thought would make me faint,” he stated. ‘I imply, what are we doing right here? It is a film.’

Sheen’s brother Emilio Estevez instructed him the information. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty Pictures)

Nonetheless, Sheen admitted that dropping the function was “a giant deal” on the time.

“It was additionally the betrayal issue, you already know,” he stated. “So I used to be like, ‘Okay, okay.’ You realize, Oliver has been a fan of Tom for a very long time. It is a totally different film when Tom does it than once I do it.”

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“And I used to be like, you already know, ‘What are you going to do?'” Sheen added. “You possibly can’t lose one thing you by no means had.”

Sheen did acknowledge that he was assured he had secured the function primarily based on conversations he had with Stone.

“The unusual factor was he stated, ‘I need you to do Born on the Fourth,’ and we had conferences about it, and we had dinner with Ron Kovic,” the “Two and a Half Males” star recalled.

“After which I did not hear from him once more,” he continued. “We stopped speaking about it and I contacted Oliver and was instructed he is in Cuba. No matter. This looks like 1988 or ’89, proper? I am like, ‘Okay, simply inform him I am searching for him.'”

Tom Cruise speaks out for navy veterans in a scene from the film ‘Born on the Fourth of July’. (Common Pictures / Getty Pictures)

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Nonetheless, Sheen admitted that he and Stone solely had an off-the-cuff settlement.

“I did not signal a contract,” he defined. “There was a handshake.”

“We have been far sufficient alongside the way in which to really feel like this was our subsequent factor,” Sheen added. “So my phrase was revered between us, nevertheless it’s positive.”

Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas on the set of ‘Wall Road’, written and directed by Oliver Stone. (Sundown Boulevard/Corbis by way of Getty Pictures)

Sheen recalled as soon as confronting Stone about what occurred with the casting once they bumped into one another at a bar.

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“I came visiting and he was there, and I used to be drunk sufficient, and he was drunk sufficient to lastly carry that factor up,” Sheen stated. “And he stated, ‘I simply felt such as you had no ardour for it. I felt such as you misplaced curiosity.’ I assumed, ‘Nicely, I have never seen you. How are you aware how a lot ardour I misplaced or how a lot curiosity evaporated if we by no means talked about it once more?'”

Sheen defined that whereas he was dissatisfied, he admired Cruise’s efficiency within the movie, which earned the “Prime Gun” star his first Academy Award nomination.

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Sheen additionally starred in ‘Main League’ and ‘Main League II’. (Diamond Pictures / Getty Pictures)

“It wasn’t like I used to be going to speak about him as a result of you then see the film and you are like, ‘Oh, okay. Okay. He made one thing of it,'” Sheen stated.

“If somebody will get a job and does that, in fact you suppose,” he continued. “You do not sit there and dissect it and say, ‘I ought to have achieved that higher.’ No, go fuck your self. That is sensible, and it is best to have received the rattling Oscar.”

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Trying again, Sheen famous that the timing was proper as a result of it allowed him to make one in all his personal greatest movies, 1989’s “Main League.”

“I do not know if ‘Main League’ occurs once I do ‘Born on the Fourth,'” Sheen stated. “I am fairly certain one would have gotten in the way in which of the opposite, and if it is not true, then that is what I am going with.”