Charlie Sheen had an emotional reaction upon learning that Tom Cruise had beaten him out for the lead role in 1989's Born on the Fourth of July. "The thing that is weird is [director Oliver Stone] said, 'I want you to do Born on the Fourth.' We had meetings about it and we had a dinner with Ron Kovic," Sheen, 60, said in an interview with Graham Bensinger uploaded via YouTube on Wednesday, October 29. "And then I stopped hearing from him. We stopped talking about it." Born on the Fourth of July is an anti-war movie based on Kovic's autobiography of the same name.