Charlie Sheen finally got the chance to confront Oliver Stone about being dropped from Born on the Fourth of July in favor of Tom Cruise, the actor revealed in a new interview.

Sheen opened up about the “betrayal” he felt at the time by the film’s director, Oliver Stone, on the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast. “The thing that was weird is he said, you know, ‘I want you to do Born on the Fourth,’ and we had meetings about it, and we had a dinner with Ron Kovic,” the real Vietnam War veteran the film is based on. “And then he just—I stopped hearing from him. We stopped talking about it,” Sheen ultimately found out Cruise had been attached to play Kovic instead, despite he and Stone’s “handshake” deal.

“We were far enough down the road to feel like this was our next thing” at the tim

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