"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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According to a quick Google search, DiCaprio is 6' 0" tall, and 180
pounds.

So, not "over 6 feet". But certainly tall and lanky (though perhaps that's
a redundant statement...IMHO, "lanky" implies "tall").

Strange, I didn't think Kate Winslet was all that tall, yet she appeared
to be as tall (or taller) than Leo in the movie "Titanic." Yet her height
is listed as just 5' 8".

She may well be.

S'pose Hollywood might be stretching Leo's stats a bit?

What Hollywood does is set up shots to make things look the way they want
them to look. Lest you forget (as you seem to have), movies are about
*illusion*. I am amused that you could use a movie like Titanic (where, I
hope, you did not think you saw a real live cruise ship sink in the frigid
North Atlantic) to call into question DiCaprio's actual height.

Common tricks, going back to the very first movies, include designing set
pieces (such as doorways, windows, and other everyday reference points) to
be lower than real life, to make the actor(s) appear larger than life, as
well as elevating one actor (e.g. Winslet) to make her appear nearly as tall
as another (e.g. DiCaprio).

I think it's at least as likely, and probably more so, that the truth
Hollywood is stretching is what you see on the screen, not what you read in
a bio (though, I'll admit the bios may or may not be accurate as well).

Pete