• We should now be fully online following an overnight outage. Apologies for any inconvenience, we do not expect there to be any further issues.

Why are so many actors so short?

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Status
Not open for further replies.

daveymark

Lifer
Sep 15, 2003
10,573
1
0
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: goku2100
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: goku2100
Originally posted by: SampSon
jewish.

WTF!?
It's not hard to understand.

Yes, yes it is...
The vast majority of hollywood and the related industry is jewish. People of jewish descent are usually short....



that makes sense. I was thinking it had to do with women being shorter generally, so a shorter actor would make for easier love scenes
 

myusername

Diamond Member
Jun 8, 2003
5,046
0
0
Because big headed people are more photogenic, and short people have proportionally larger heads?

Originally posted by: daveymark
that makes sense. I was thinking it had to do with women being shorter generally, so a shorter actor would make for easier love scenes

Hmm. Thats' why Alan Ladd had to stand on a wooden box for his scenes ;)
 

daveymark

Lifer
Sep 15, 2003
10,573
1
0
Originally posted by: clickynext
Actors are short? I must be looking at different actors, then.

I don't want to know about any fetishes you might have. Not outside of PM's anyway.
 

spidey07

No Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
65,469
5
76
Originally posted by: McCarthy
It's because they were short in school, so they were the class clown to avoid getting beat up by the taller kids. Later, after being cut from the basketball team, they join the theater club.

we have a winnar!
 

kogase

Diamond Member
Sep 8, 2004
5,213
0
0
Originally posted by: daveymark
wow, looks like there's quite a few anti-height folks in the crowd tonight

or maybe being anti-height is the norm, hence the effect on hollywood

folks, tall people are just like me and you, so let's try to lose the prejudice

What? They aren't like me, they're tall.
 

Vic

Elite Member
Jun 12, 2001
50,422
14,337
136
So leading man and lady are at eye level on camera. This is why actresses tend to taller than normal and actors a bit shorter than. Ideally, both about 5'7", give or take.
 

Dangerer

Golden Member
Mar 15, 2005
1,128
0
0
What!? Do you ever watch soap operas? They all graduated from the school of abercrombie modeling.
 

ThePresence

Elite Member
Nov 19, 2001
27,727
16
81
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: goku2100
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: goku2100
Originally posted by: SampSon
jewish.

WTF!?
It's not hard to understand.

Yes, yes it is...
The vast majority of hollywood and the related industry is jewish. People of jewish descent are usually short....
No, no it doesn't make sense. Although it's a really popular theme to throw out there that Hollywood is all Jewish, there are not that many Jewish actors.
 

imported_Reck

Golden Member
Jun 24, 2004
1,695
1
0
tom cruise wears thick soled shoes to make him look taller. he must be pretty insecure to do something like that.
 

JohnCU

Banned
Dec 9, 2000
16,528
4
0
You people talk about how America is OMGWTFBBQWAYTOOPOLITCALLYCORRECT! but then you get offended at this guy talking about the historical genetics of Asian people?

that's like saying, why are so many americans white? they must have European ancestors...
 

daveymark

Lifer
Sep 15, 2003
10,573
1
0
Originally posted by: JohnCU
You people talk about how America is OMGWTFBBQWAYTOOPOLITCALLYCORRECT! but then you get offended at this guy talking about the genetics of tall people?


fixed
 
Status
Not open for further replies.