Nicole Kidman is opening up about how her height affected her Hollywood career, revealing that she used to lie about how tall she was in order to secure auditions at the beginning of her acting career.
Nicole shared that she would tell casting directors that she was 5 feet 10 ½ inches when in actuality she was 5 feet 11 inches tall. The Being The Ricardos actress said that she was told that she would never make it in Tinseltown because she was considered to be “too tall.”
“I was told, ‘You won’t have a career. You’re too tall," she continued. "Now, I get, ‘You’re so much taller than I thought,’ or men grappling with how high my heels should be.”
“Whenever I go on the red carpet, I get sent shoes that are always so high," Nicole said. "I’m like, ‘Do they have a kitten heel? I’m going to be the tallest person — a giraffe!’”
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The actress shared that she is sometimes bothered by her height when she’s acting, and her knees end up hurting as a result. She went on to reveal that there are a few roles that passed her up because of her height.
There was one time she didn't get the role for Annie. She shared that she was 2 inches taller than the 5 feet 2 inch height cut-off. Still, she pleaded with the directors to give her a chance to audition and they let her.
“I didn’t get the part,” she said. “I didn’t even get a call back — but at least I got to sing four lines of a chorus.” That experience, among others, is what helps Nicole teach her daughters her superpower.
"I tell my daughters none of it matters," the Big Little Lies star said. "What matters is how you allow other people to either say 'yes' or 'no' to you, and whether you accept that. … That inner resilience, as a human being — that’s the superpower, really."
In a 2020 interview, she talked about the fears and insecurities she had about her height as a teen. “I was a teenager who wouldn’t conform, but I had a lot of fears and insecurities because I was very tall," she said. "I was 5 feet 10 inches by the time I was 13 years old."
The actress shares two adopted children — her daughter Isabella and son Connor — with her ex-husband Tom Cruise. She is also mom to daughters Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, whom she shares with her husband Keith Urban. The couple have been married since 2006.
