Charlie Sheen just lately appeared on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger” and mirrored on being dropped from 1989’s “Born on the Fourth of July” in order that it may turn out to be a Tom Cruise star automobile. Sheen mentioned he had been in talks together with his “Platoon” director Oliver Stone about reuniting on the film, which tells the true story of Vietnam Conflict veteran Ron Kovic and the way he grew to become an anti-war advocate after being paralyzed in battle. Sheen had no thought Stone was altering course till Sheen’s brother, Emilio Estevez, cold-called him one evening.
“Emilio, he calls me. He says, ‘Hey, man. You sitting down?’ And I feel any individual died, proper?” Sheen mentioned (through EW). “I’m like, ‘No, what’s occurring?” He says, ‘Cruise is doing “Born on the Fourth.”‘ I like that Emilio thought that I wanted to be seated to get information he thought was going to make me faint. I imply, what are we doing right here? It’s a film.”
Even when it’s only a film, Sheen acknowledged being dropped for Cruise was “an enormous deal,” including: “It was additionally the betrayal issue of it. So I used to be like, ‘OK, all proper.’ You understand, Oliver’s been a fan of Tom’s for a very long time. It’s a special film if Tom does it than if I do it.”
Sheen mentioned the information of Cruise’s casting got here after he “had conferences about” the film with Stone, with the duo even having dinner with the true Ron Kovic. “After which I finished listening to from him,” Sheen mentioned of Stone. “We stopped speaking about it, and I attain out to Oliver, and I’m informed that he’s in Cuba. No matter. That is like 1988 or ’89, proper? I’m like, ‘OK, nicely, inform him I’m in search of him.’”
It wasn’t till a lot later that Sheen acquired the possibility to confront Stone concerning the betrayal once they each ended up in the identical bar, explaining: “I used to be drunk sufficient and he was drunk sufficient for that factor to lastly be introduced up. And he was like, ‘I simply felt such as you didn’t have any ardour for it. I felt such as you misplaced curiosity.’ I used to be like, ‘Nicely, I didn’t see you. How are you aware how a lot ardour I misplaced or curiosity that evaporated if we by no means talked about it once more?’”
Sheen is not bitter about how issues went down, noting: “You’ll be able to’t lose one thing you by no means had. I didn’t signal a contract. There was a handshake.” And he’s not one to speak negatively about Cruise, who scored the primary Oscar nomination of his profession for “Born on the Fourth of July.”
“It wasn’t like a factor the place I’m going to speak shit about him, as a result of you then see the film and also you’re like, ‘Oh, OK. All proper. He turned it into that,’” Sheen mentioned. “When somebody will get a job and does that with it, you’re identical to, in fact. You don’t sit there and dissect it and like, ‘I’d have finished that higher.’ No, go fuck your self. That’s an excellent [performance] — and you must have gained the freaking Oscar.”
Cruise’s Oscar nom was considered one of eight Academy Award nominations earned by “Born on the Fourth of July.” The movie was additionally nominated for finest image and gained Stone one of the best director prize. The film was a field workplace hit with $162 million worldwide.
Watch Sheen’s full interview on the “In Depth With Graham Bensinger” podcast within the video under.
