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Is Jacob Elordi Too Tall to Be a Movie Star?
The six-foot-five heartthrob appears to be breaking Hollywood’s height barrier.
Extremely tall actors, when they’re cast at all, tend to get pigeonholed as villains, comic relief, or space creatures — like Peter Mayhew(seven-foot-three), who portrayed Chewbacca, or Bolaji Badejo(six-foot-ten), who played the title role in Alien. But aside from athletes who have moonlighted in movies, only a very few working actors are taller than Elordi, including Pete Holmes, Bo Burnham, and Penn Jillette(all six-foot-six), James Cromwell and Stephen Merchant(both six-foot-seven), and Brad Garrett(six-foot-eight). But this year, he’ll expand his repertoire in the film On Swift Horses, as a gambler in 1950s California, and in Paul Schrader ’s Oh, Canada, as the younger version of the main character, played by Richard Gere (five-foot-ten).
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