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

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purple associate
  01/04/26
Actors at those heights look better on camera.
grizzly boistinker
  01/04/26
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haunting smoky theatre
  01/04/26
nah that's BS probably. if anything Mel Gibson looks ridicul...
Frisky Ticket Booth
  01/04/26
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Beady-eyed lemon main people
  01/04/26
cheaper constumes and the leading women can "act" ...
Cruel-hearted Passionate Famous Landscape Painting
  01/04/26
Not so much taller than their female costars that it causes ...
haunting smoky theatre
  01/04/26
casting done by Jews who are 5'5 themselves
Cyan lay
  01/04/26
because you can just shoot them at camera angles that make t...
flirting useless brakes
  01/04/26
If you're an adult male with spatial intelligence and pay at...
Frisky Ticket Booth
  01/04/26
really tom cruise was thirty years ago and is grandfathered ...
flirting useless brakes
  01/04/26
have always been told it is about the face - smaller face...
Hairraiser Fishy Striped Hyena
  01/04/26
(Johnny Drama)
wild aqua station hairy legs
  01/04/26
there are no "top hollywood actors" anymore. the S...
lascivious cerise international law enforcement agency
  01/04/26
Child actors can't be expected to have good adult phenotypes...
Frisky Ticket Booth
  01/04/26
good point cowshit
lascivious cerise international law enforcement agency
  01/04/26
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purple associate
  01/04/26
lol cr
White indian lodge
  01/04/26
Jews hate beauty and strength
razzmatazz pit
  01/04/26
this isn't even true btw because if you look at the box offi...
lascivious cerise international law enforcement agency
  01/04/26
there are still a lot of Chalamets and Stathams out there (w...
Hairraiser Fishy Striped Hyena
  01/04/26
because actors are the theater kids from your high school - ...
flesh abusive principal's office jew
  01/04/26
First, the most important (but also most obvious) answer is ...
Light jet-lagged resort electric furnace
  01/04/26
ok I'll bite - who the fuck is philip haldiman?
flesh abusive principal's office jew
  01/04/26
i assume he meant josh hutcherson, not 60 year old bald phil...
Hairraiser Fishy Striped Hyena
  01/04/26
Oh sorry, I literally googled "who played denny in The ...
Light jet-lagged resort electric furnace
  01/04/26
josh hutcherson is listed at 5'5
Black curious theater
  01/04/26
perfect for casting in XO the movie then
Hairraiser Fishy Striped Hyena
  01/04/26
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purple associate
  01/04/26
thanks for weighing in, Tall Internet Poster.
Frisky Ticket Booth
  01/04/26
I was almost cast in a pilot as a kid but there were problem...
Bronze rambunctious parlour cuck
  01/04/26
How tall?
purple associate
  01/04/26
Taller than average. So compared to child actors
Bronze rambunctious parlour cuck
  01/04/26
tall men are too busy dominating sports and IRL to care abou...
Concupiscible stead
  01/04/26


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Date: January 4th, 2026 5:00 AM
Author: purple associate



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:12 PM
Author: grizzly boistinker

Actors at those heights look better on camera.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561468)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:13 PM
Author: haunting smoky theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561469)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:19 PM
Author: Frisky Ticket Booth

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``.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561490)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:50 PM
Author: Beady-eyed lemon main people



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:13 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted Passionate Famous Landscape Painting

cheaper constumes and the leading women can "act" attracted

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561471)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:14 PM
Author: haunting smoky theatre

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,#49561472)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:15 PM
Author: Cyan lay

casting done by Jews who are 5'5 themselves

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561476)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:16 PM
Author: flirting useless brakes

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,#49561477)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:20 PM
Author: Frisky Ticket Booth

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,#49561491)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:25 PM
Author: flirting useless brakes

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561507)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:20 PM
Author: Hairraiser Fishy Striped Hyena

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561492)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:37 PM
Author: wild aqua station hairy legs

(Johnny Drama)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561541)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:21 PM
Author: lascivious cerise international law enforcement agency

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,#49561496)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:27 PM
Author: Frisky Ticket Booth

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,#49561511)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: lascivious cerise international law enforcement agency

good point cowshit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561520)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 2:01 PM
Author: purple associate



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Date: January 4th, 2026 9:08 PM
Author: White indian lodge

lol cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49562728)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:35 PM
Author: razzmatazz pit

Jews hate beauty and strength

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561538)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:39 PM
Author: lascivious cerise international law enforcement agency

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,#49561545)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:46 PM
Author: Hairraiser Fishy Striped Hyena

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561556)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:49 PM
Author: flesh abusive principal's office jew

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: Light jet-lagged resort electric furnace

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."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561565)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 12:56 PM
Author: flesh abusive principal's office jew

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561576)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 1:09 PM
Author: Hairraiser Fishy Striped Hyena

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561605)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 1:13 PM
Author: Light jet-lagged resort electric furnace

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561613)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:09 PM
Author: Black curious theater

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: Hairraiser Fishy Striped Hyena

perfect for casting in XO the movie then



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561889)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:32 PM
Author: purple associate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817140&forum_id=2,#49561903)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 2:08 PM
Author: Frisky Ticket Booth

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: Bronze rambunctious parlour cuck

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,#49561902)



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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:33 PM
Author: purple associate

How tall?

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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:34 PM
Author: Bronze rambunctious parlour cuck

Taller than average.

So compared to child actors

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Date: January 4th, 2026 3:34 PM
Author: Concupiscible stead

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)