This is Matt Damn

He'll make it cool.

Besides that, having a tall guy awkwardly hunch to kiss a female actress would look bad on the screen. Similarly, an actor who is foot taller than everyone else would look awkward and stick out too much. It might be tough to fit into the frame with other people without making it look ugly and unprofessional too.

Midget like Tom Cruise can just put on platform shoes, but if you have a basketball player, then everyone else needs to wear platforms.

You can more easily have a high width to height ratio to make you look big and strong.

Tall women are rare and it's much easier to keep both actors in frame if you're a short man and there's not much height difference between you and your co-star.

Damon is ONA?

MATT DAMON

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his eight what? pieces of denim clothing he's wearing in OP's shot?

Matt Damon is 5'9" tops, you know most celebs add 2 inches. He's adding at least one

all of the best action stars are short because everything in the world looks extra big around them which allows the viewer to have a more childlike perspective of what's going on again which also makes it more exciting.