{"id":344530,"date":"2025-10-31T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/344530\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:08:11","slug":"sheen-recalled-the-handshake-deal-he-had-to-star-in-oliver-stones-oscar-nominated-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/344530\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheen recalled the \u201chandshake\u201d deal he had to star in Oliver Stone\u2019s Oscar-nominated film."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 \u201cbetrayal\u201d he felt at the time by the film\u2019s director, Oliver Stone, on the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast. \u201cThe thing that was weird is he said, you know, \u2018I want you to do Born on the Fourth,\u2019 and we had meetings about it, and we had a dinner with Ron Kovic,\u201d the real Vietnam War veteran the film is based on. \u201cAnd then he just\u2014I stopped hearing from him. We stopped talking about it,\u201d Sheen ultimately found out Cruise had been attached to play Kovic instead, despite he and Stone\u2019s \u201chandshake\u201d deal. \u201cWe were far enough down the road to feel like this was our next thing\u201d at the time, Sheen, who previously starred in Stone\u2019s Platoon in 1986 recalled. \u201cI signed a napkin,\u201d he laughed. \u201cMy word was honored between us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Sheen finally got the chance to confront Oliver Stone about being dropped from Born on the Fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":344531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,1028,171,169485,132020,169484,11683,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-344530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-charlie-sheen","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-in-depth-with-graham-bensinger","12":"tag-oliver-stone","13":"tag-ron-kovic","14":"tag-tom-cruise","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115466345138149829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}