Funnyman Chris Rock is still convinced Al Pacino's Scent Of A Woman would have been a better movie if he'd beaten Chris O'Donnell for the role of the movie legend's sidekick.

Rock admits he was up for the role of Charlie Simms in the 1992 drama but lost out to O'Donnell.

He tells Rolling Stone, "There was a little bit of talk about me playing the Chris O'Donnell part in Scent of a Woman, which actually would've been a better movie with a black kid playing that part."

Rock was also up for the title role in Julian Schnabel's Basquiat, but didn't have a clue who the director or the artist were.

He adds, "I didn't know who Schnabel was, and I didn't know who Basquiat was."