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If height is so important why are all the TOP Hollywood actors sub 5'11?
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Date: January 4th, 2026 5:00 AM Author: Appetizing amethyst yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561045) |
Date: January 4th, 2026 12:12 PM Author: Glassy learning disabled plaza goyim Actors at those heights look better on camera. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561468) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:13 PM Author: sooty organic girlfriend scourge upon the earth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561469) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:19 PM Author: diverse lodge quadroon 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: Arousing Haunted Graveyard Roast Beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561561) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:13 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone trailer park cheaper constumes and the leading women can "act" attracted (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561471) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:14 PM Author: sooty organic girlfriend scourge upon the earth 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561472) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:15 PM Author: autistic sticky rehab laser beams casting done by Jews who are 5'5 themselves (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561476) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:16 PM Author: Vivacious church building 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'' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561477) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:20 PM Author: diverse lodge quadroon 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561491) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:25 PM Author: Vivacious church building really tom cruise was thirty years ago and is grandfathered in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561507) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:20 PM Author: Hateful outnumbered school cafeteria 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: Demanding Orange Turdskin (Johnny Drama) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561541) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:21 PM Author: Clear range 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561496) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:27 PM Author: diverse lodge quadroon 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 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561511) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:30 PM Author: Clear range good point cowshit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561520) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 2:01 PM Author: Appetizing amethyst yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561715) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:08 PM Author: bistre pocket flask international law enforcement agency lol cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49562728) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:35 PM Author: Light Field Deer Antler Jews hate beauty and strength (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561538) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:39 PM Author: Clear range 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. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561545) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:46 PM Author: Hateful outnumbered school cafeteria 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: fuchsia at-the-ready garrison 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...id#49561560) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:51 PM Author: fragrant boltzmann gaping 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: fuchsia at-the-ready garrison ok I'll bite - who the fuck is philip haldiman? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561576) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 1:09 PM Author: Hateful outnumbered school cafeteria 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: fragrant boltzmann gaping 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: bisexual mildly autistic base josh hutcherson is listed at 5'5 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561863) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:23 PM Author: Hateful outnumbered school cafeteria perfect for casting in XO the movie then
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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:32 PM Author: Appetizing amethyst yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561903) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 2:08 PM Author: diverse lodge quadroon thanks for weighing in, Tall Internet Poster. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561745) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:31 PM Author: Crimson station I was almost cast in a pilot as a kid but there were problems bc I was Tall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561902) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:33 PM Author: Appetizing amethyst yarmulke How tall? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2...id#49561905) |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:34 PM Author: Crimson station Taller than average.
So compared to child actors |
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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:34 PM Author: pea-brained self-absorbed crackhouse 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...id#49561910) |