Nicole Kidman admits she used to lie about her height to secure auditions

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Nicole Kidman has confessed that she used to fib about her height to secure auditions within the early years of her profession.

The 5ft 11 (1.8 metres) actor stated that she used to faux she was 5ft 10 and a half after she was advised she wouldn’t make it in Hollywood as a result of she was “too tall”.

“I was told, ‘You won’t have a career. You’re too tall’,” Kidman, 56, stated in a latest interview on the Radio Times Podcast.

“People would say, ‘How’s the air up there?’ Now, I get, ‘You’re so much taller than I thought’, or men grappling with how high my heels should be,” the Australian actor added. “Whenever I go on the red carpet, I get sent shoes that are always so high. I’m like, ‘Do they have a kitten heel? I’m going to be the tallest person – a giraffe!’”

She then recalled a time in her childhood when was handed up for a task within the musical Annie as a result of she was two inches taller than the 5ft 2 inch cut-off.

Kidman stated that the younger women being thought of for the position weren’t allowed within the audition room till they had been measured.

She defined that regardless of her height, she was given the possibility to audition after pleading for the chance.

“I didn’t get the part,” the Moulin Rouge! star stated. “I didn’t even get a call back – but at least I got to sing four lines of a chorus.”

Fellow Aussie native Chris Hemsworth equally confessed to the Radio Times in 2016 that he additionally used to say he was shorter than he was to land auditions.

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The 6ft 3 actor revealed that “the brief for the audition for Thor said: ‘must be over 6ft 1in’, which I’d never seen before”.

Kidman has gone on to change into an extremely profitable actor, having landed her first Oscar nomination in 2002 for Moulin Rouge!, her first Oscar win in 2003 for The Hours, and incomes three extra nominations since.

In 2017, she received two Emmys for her main position on HBO’s Big Little Lies.

She will subsequent star in Amazon Prime Vido’s mini-drama Expats, based mostly on Janice YK Lee’s best-selling 1998 novel The Expatriates.

The first two episodes of the six-episode sequence are scheduled to premiere on 26 January, with new episodes launched weekly.