Charlie Sheen hasn’t forgotten the moment he learned he lost out on the starring role in “Born on the Fourth of July.”

During Thursday’s episode of “In Depth with Graham Bensinger,” Sheen, 60, recalled that his brother, Emilio Estevez, was the one who informed him that Tom Cruise was cast as Sergeant Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone’s 1989 Vietnam War movie.

At the time, Sheen had already worked with Stone, 79, on 1986’s “Platoon” and 1987’s “Wall Street,” so he figured he was a shoo-in to star in “Born on the Fourth of July.”

“Emilio, he calls me. He says, ‘Hey, man. You sitting down?’ And I think somebody died, right?” Sheen remembered.

“I’m like, ‘No, what’s going on?’ He says, ‘Cruise is doing Born on the Fourth,'” Sheen continued. “I love that Emilio thought that I needed to be seated

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