{"id":289317,"date":"2026-02-09T20:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:47:47","slug":"laura-dern-on-how-height-impacted-acting-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289317\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Dern On How Height Impacted Acting Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Dern On How Height Impacted Acting Career<\/p>\n<p>      The iconic actor, who won an Oscar in 2020 for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ellendurney\/actors-who-won-oscars-short-screentime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">18-minute performance in<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ellendurney\/actors-who-won-oscars-short-screentime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marriage Story<\/a>, has had a pretty expansive career, most recently starring in Bradley Cooper\u2019s film Is This Thing On?<\/p>\n<p>      Laura stars alongside Will Arnett in the comedy-drama, and in a new chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/arts-entertainment\/films\/features\/laura-dern-andra-day-interview-is-this-thing-on-b2910907.html?test_group=lighteradlayout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Independent<\/a>, she gushed about what it was like having an on-screen love interest similar to her in height.<\/p>\n<p>      If you didn\u2019t know, Laura is roughly 5\u201911\u201d, and Will is roughly 6\u20192\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>      Here they are side-by-side in the film:<\/p>\n<p>      Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/arts-entertainment\/films\/features\/laura-dern-andra-day-interview-is-this-thing-on-b2910907.html?test_group=lighteradlayout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Independent<\/a>, Laura said, \u201cWhen Will and I are sitting side by side, we\u2019re the same height. And it\u2019s crazy to be in a scene with a male actor, and we\u2019re actually looking straight into each other\u2019s eyes, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>      After noting that she has \u201ca radically tall torso,\u201d Laura was asked if she\u2019s ever been turned down for jobs because of her height.<\/p>\n<p>      She replied, \u201cOh, 150 times! I was 5&#8217;11&#8221; at 12 years old and acting already, so I was losing parts constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Dern On How Height Impacted Acting Career The iconic actor, who won an Oscar in 2020 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,1857,1858],"class_list":{"0":"post-289317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-timely","13":"tag-womens-content"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}