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If height is so important why are all the TOP Hollywood actors sub 5'11?

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Shaky Mustard Jap Prole
  01/04/26
Actors at those heights look better on camera.
Lemon bateful newt
  01/04/26
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cerebral massive corner toaster
  01/04/26
nah that's BS probably. if anything Mel Gibson looks ridicul...
Sick mint set sound barrier
  01/04/26
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Jet-lagged know-it-all boistinker
  01/04/26
cheaper constumes and the leading women can "act" ...
Erotic regret
  01/04/26
Not so much taller than their female costars that it causes ...
cerebral massive corner toaster
  01/04/26
casting done by Jews who are 5'5 themselves
passionate famous landscape painting
  01/04/26
because you can just shoot them at camera angles that make t...
Diverse submissive piazza
  01/04/26
If you're an adult male with spatial intelligence and pay at...
Sick mint set sound barrier
  01/04/26
really tom cruise was thirty years ago and is grandfathered ...
Diverse submissive piazza
  01/04/26
have always been told it is about the face - smaller face...
Doobsian Foreskin
  01/04/26
(Johnny Drama)
Rusted generalized bond meetinghouse
  01/04/26
there are no "top hollywood actors" anymore. the S...
Talented Tank
  01/04/26
Child actors can't be expected to have good adult phenotypes...
Sick mint set sound barrier
  01/04/26
good point cowshit
Talented Tank
  01/04/26
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Shaky Mustard Jap Prole
  01/04/26
lol cr
maize thirsty associate tattoo
  01/04/26
Jews hate beauty and strength
Shivering Indian Lodge
  01/04/26
this isn't even true btw because if you look at the box offi...
Talented Tank
  01/04/26
there are still a lot of Chalamets and Stathams out there (w...
Doobsian Foreskin
  01/04/26
because actors are the theater kids from your high school - ...
lascivious pale electric furnace
  01/04/26
First, the most important (but also most obvious) answer is ...
Indigo base
  01/04/26
ok I'll bite - who the fuck is philip haldiman?
lascivious pale electric furnace
  01/04/26
i assume he meant josh hutcherson, not 60 year old bald phil...
Doobsian Foreskin
  01/04/26
Oh sorry, I literally googled "who played denny in The ...
Indigo base
  01/04/26
josh hutcherson is listed at 5'5
zippy garrison pistol
  01/04/26
perfect for casting in XO the movie then
Doobsian Foreskin
  01/04/26
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Shaky Mustard Jap Prole
  01/04/26
thanks for weighing in, Tall Internet Poster.
Sick mint set sound barrier
  01/04/26
I was almost cast in a pilot as a kid but there were problem...
Glittery brethren stage
  01/04/26
How tall?
Shaky Mustard Jap Prole
  01/04/26
Taller than average. So compared to child actors
Glittery brethren stage
  01/04/26
tall men are too busy dominating sports and IRL to care abou...
Buff hilarious messiness
  01/04/26


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Date: January 4th, 2026 5:00 AM
Author: Shaky Mustard Jap Prole



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:12 PM
Author: Lemon bateful newt

Actors at those heights look better on camera.

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:13 PM
Author: cerebral massive corner toaster



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:19 PM
Author: Sick mint set sound barrier

nah that's BS probably. if anything Mel Gibson looks ridiculous trying to kick guy's asses in Film. Tom Cruise even worse. Sometimes he just launches his entire body at them like a missile. He can't just throw a punch.

It's like asking why the point guard is like the quarterback of the basketball court with higher IQ/GPA who plays shrewdly and intelligently and has exquisite ball handling and high free throw %. it's kind of just because there aren't nearly as many Tall Guys to begin with who also have those qualities. Like Jokic can do it all but it's not the norm.

the other thing is that Tall Guys go through life without feeling the full range of emotions, they just get praised for being Tall starting at age 5, so they end up lacking range. it's the same problem models have where they can't act.

Mel Gibson's suicidal underdog energy is like exactly what you'd see in a Short hs wrestler Scumjock or something. Imagine Tom Brady in Lethal Weapon. it'd be ruinous.

Tall Guys can do really well at being villains or henchmen. Charles Dance is one such case in Bond: https://preview.redd.it/charles-dance-in-for-your-eyes-only-1981-v0-lu0xukjwcr1e1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=f6f1ff1640f51462ae84355bdb5535a61d7fc4e9

If you've only seen him in GoT you'd think he's the best actor ever, but he's kind of The Same in everything bc he's like 6`3``.

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:50 PM
Author: Jet-lagged know-it-all boistinker



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:13 PM
Author: Erotic regret

cheaper constumes and the leading women can "act" attracted

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:14 PM
Author: cerebral massive corner toaster

Not so much taller than their female costars that it causes a framing problem. Ben Affleck is an exception, but he often has pretty tall female costars.

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:15 PM
Author: passionate famous landscape painting

casting done by Jews who are 5'5 themselves

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:16 PM
Author: Diverse submissive piazza

because you can just shoot them at camera angles that make them look 6'3''. the actors may be 5'9'' but the characters are 6'3''

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:20 PM
Author: Sick mint set sound barrier

If you're an adult male with spatial intelligence and pay attention you realize this is BS. Tom Cruise looks short as hell in everything.

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:25 PM
Author: Diverse submissive piazza

really tom cruise was thirty years ago and is grandfathered in.

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:20 PM
Author: Doobsian Foreskin

have always been told it is about the face

- smaller faces look better on camera

- small people with a relatively big head for their tiny bodies look better on camera



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:37 PM
Author: Rusted generalized bond meetinghouse

(Johnny Drama)

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:21 PM
Author: Talented Tank

there are no "top hollywood actors" anymore. the Stranger Things cast is ugly, like phenotypes you would see at Aldi, and they will all spiral into drug abuse and extended unemployment soon imo.

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:27 PM
Author: Sick mint set sound barrier

Child actors can't be expected to have good adult phenotypes when their only talents are being Short and pretending to be younger than they are & getting molested

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: Talented Tank

good point cowshit

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Date: January 4th, 2026 2:01 PM
Author: Shaky Mustard Jap Prole



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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:08 PM
Author: maize thirsty associate tattoo

lol cr

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:35 PM
Author: Shivering Indian Lodge

Jews hate beauty and strength

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:39 PM
Author: Talented Tank

this isn't even true btw because if you look at the box office in recent years it is guys like Hugh Jackman and Liam Neeson who are pulling in the numbers. Jackman is still in the closet for some reason but he's 6'2 and Neeson is like 6'4 even at 73 years old.

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:46 PM
Author: Doobsian Foreskin

there are still a lot of Chalamets and Stathams out there (who both claim to be 5'10", so about 5'7")



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:49 PM
Author: lascivious pale electric furnace

because actors are the theater kids from your high school - not the jocks. The screen is big enough for short guys to look normal. What producers look for is interesting and emotive faces (big eyes, big noses, lips, chins, etc)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2).#49561560)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:51 PM
Author: Indigo base

First, the most important (but also most obvious) answer is that the pros of height / cons of shortness are negated by cinematographical conventions that don't show lingering, dead-on, head-to-toe shots of multiple people at once (i.e., how people look at other people exclusively IRL), which obfuscates height in a way that doesn't have any IRL equivalent. So asking why studios cast short actors in leading roles clearly intended to be Tall is like asking why chris nolan didn't cast real experienced space-shuttle pilots in interstellar: he didn't need to, because movie magic was going to make whoever he cast *look* like he was piloting the space shuttle, regardless. So there's no reason to apply that highly restrictive filter on casting.

Second, shorter guys' proportions look better for the camera, which actually does distort human features a bit. Where you actually see this *the most* is child actors: the child actors who look best tend to be more fully developed (as in, their growth is closer to being done) both facially and bodily, and as a result they grow up to be malformed-looking and comically short--like, too short to even be used at all as adult actors (at least in any kind of sex-symbol/leading-man capacity; maybe as like a dwarf or hobbit or something). Look at haley joel osment and harry and ron from the harry potter series; five-foot-seven macaulay culkin TOWERS over all of them.

Finally, even these historical benefits for short actors have started to fade in recent years, succumbing, ultimately, to the all-important power of Height. Look at how wet sluts got for the Hemsworth brothers. That's my wife's big complaint about the Hunger Games movies, where they cast liam hemsworth as one potential love interest and philip haldiman as the other: she points out that it's "just not believable" that a girl (especially a tall girl, like jennifer lawrence) would go with haldiman under really any circumstances. "He's [haldiman] a good actor, but they just can't have the comparison be like that if they want female viewers to stay engaged with the film."

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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:56 PM
Author: lascivious pale electric furnace

ok I'll bite - who the fuck is philip haldiman?

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Date: January 4th, 2026 1:09 PM
Author: Doobsian Foreskin

i assume he meant josh hutcherson, not 60 year old bald phil halidman



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Date: January 4th, 2026 1:13 PM
Author: Indigo base

Oh sorry, I literally googled "who played denny in The Room," thinking of james franco's "The Disaster Artist," which depicts the making of "The Room".

Haldiman played denny/danny in the original The Room, and then josh hutcherson played Haldiman in The Disaster Artist.

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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:09 PM
Author: zippy garrison pistol

josh hutcherson is listed at 5'5

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2).#49561863)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:23 PM
Author: Doobsian Foreskin

perfect for casting in XO the movie then



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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:32 PM
Author: Shaky Mustard Jap Prole



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Date: January 4th, 2026 2:08 PM
Author: Sick mint set sound barrier

thanks for weighing in, Tall Internet Poster.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2).#49561745)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:31 PM
Author: Glittery brethren stage

I was almost cast in a pilot as a kid but there were problems bc I was Tall

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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:33 PM
Author: Shaky Mustard Jap Prole

How tall?

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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:34 PM
Author: Glittery brethren stage

Taller than average.

So compared to child actors

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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:34 PM
Author: Buff hilarious messiness

tall men are too busy dominating sports and IRL to care about playing make believe. Acting is for short losers hoping for a chance to pretend to be preps and jocks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2).#49561910)