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Scully Box

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Scully Box	comment	When planning out the framing of an image, sometimes the real-life height of an actor can be a hindrance to making the shot look good. If an actor looks too short next to a costar, the easiest thing to do is to have them stand on something to make them taller while making sure the camera can't see their feet. This helps to keep people in frame and sometimes better convey power dynamics, as taller people tend to feel more in control. While boxes are common, this trope refers to a number of different techniques used to bridge that gap including high heels (and not just for women), camera angles, and specialized blocking for (never standing face to face, sitting down a lot, etc.). A subtrope is when the camera is lowered and placed at a sharp upward angle to create the illusion of height called a Hitler Cam. Named for a special box from the production of The X-Files. Standing at 5'2" (1.57 m), Gillian Anderson was much shorter than her co-star David Duchovny, who was 6'0" (1.83 m). Consequently, to keep Scully and Mulder on roughly the same plane while shooting them together, they developed a special box for her to stand on (also referred on set as "Gilly-Board" after the actress). Unlike the traditional movie apple box or trench, a Scully Box can be stacked up, or laid out in a runway. It's very versatile and used to accommodate large height differences between cast members. The term "apple box" is prevalent in the industry for an actor-heightening wooden box of a given dimension, typically: 12" Ã— 8" Ã— 20" or 30 Ã— 20 Ã— 50cm. A Scully Box is an 'apple' and a half and is constructed of aluminum covered with outdoor carpeting for sound-deadening and traction. An inversion of this, where a character is framed to look smaller in the environment than they should be, is sometimes referred to as "trenching." Compare Cheated Angle. A lack of Scully Box can lead to a "Down Here!" Shot.
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Scully Box / int_109f7814	comment	In the episode His Last Vow of the BBC's Sherlock, 6'3" Lars Mikkelsen spends a great deal of his screen time with other characters seated or even at one point on his knees (where he is still nearly the same height as 5'4" Amanda Abbington.) Conversely, the height difference between stars Benedict Cumberbatch (5'11 1/2") and Martin Freeman (5'6 1/2") is highlighted and Played for Laughs.
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Scully Box / int_1133352a	comment	In general for the Terminator franchise, Schwarzenegger (~ 6'1") is above average height and massive but he's not that tall. Conveniently, the T-800 has a strong preference for outfits with boots.
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Scully Box / int_12300cc3	comment	Rorschach invokes this in Watchmen. When the police arrest him, they find he wears platform shoes to make himself taller.
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Scully Box / int_131d06c	comment	Kane stands at about an impressive 6'6", but because he was supposed to be bigger than his kayfabe brother The Undertaker, who is about 6'8" (billed at 6'10"), he wore lifts in his boots to be closer to his billed height of 7 feet.
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Scully Box / int_1449a8e8	comment	Used in at least one of the Dirty Harry films, given Clint Eastwood is really tall.
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Scully Box / int_160c1407	comment	Band shots of Metallica usually disguise how much shorter Lars Ulrich is compared to everyone else, such as the fisheye lens cover of Garage Days Re-Revisited◊.
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Scully Box / int_170487d5	comment	In one scene in ParaNorman, Norman's father is made taller than his son in this way in order to emphasize the disconnect between the two. The box is steadily replaced with smaller and smaller boxes as Norman walks away.
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Scully Box / int_17293dfa	comment	Ryoma Hoshi from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is the shortest character in the series at a mere 3'5", and because of this, he has to stand on a stool during class trials. This also happens when the robotic teddy bear Monokuma joins the students in the final class trials of both the first and second games, in which he stands on a vaulting horse to be the same height as the students.
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Scully Box / int_2212773a	comment	While Angel was in the series, Sarah Michelle Gellar (5'4") had to stand on a box just so she could be seen in the same frame as the much taller David Boreanaz (6'1"). The later seasons had her wear high heels to have Buffy appear taller than Dawn.
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Scully Box / int_22147342	comment	On Arrow, the 5'5" Emily Bett Rickards (Felicity Smoak) spends most of her scenes with the 6'1" Stephen Amell (Oliver) and the 6'2" David Ramsey (Diggle). You can see where this is going. In fact, her Twitter bio used to say "I stand on apple boxes for a living."
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Scully Box / int_226532ce	comment	In Lucky Star's opening, a zoom-in at waist-level shows Konata's skirt at the same height as the other girls, but she is significantly shorter than them, which implies she was standing on something offscreen.
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Scully Box / int_22d87fc9	comment	In the earliest seasons of That '70s Show, the scenes where 15-year-old Mila Kunis (Jackie) and Laura Prepon (Donna) talked alone had either to portray them sitting, or to have Mila wearing platform heels. Not quite a box, but very close.
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Scully Box / int_23d67c89	comment	Pretty much everyone of average height who shared a scene with Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, or any other hobbits in the trilogy, in order to make the hobbits seem shorter, in conjunction with forced perspective and body doubles. The sole exception was John Rhys Davies, who (by sheer coincidence) is as much taller than the hobbit actors as a dwarf is supposed to be, so shots involving only them could dispense with any height trickery. The same trick was used in The Hobbit movies, especially as the Dwarf actors (as well as Martin Freeman) interact with taller characters like Gandalf and Thranduil.
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Scully Box / int_2a139e05	comment	In The Orville, Seth MacFarlane's boots help make him look taller than Adrianne Palicki, even though he's only an inch shorter than she is. Both of them typically tower over the rest of the cast.
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Scully Box / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: Nathan Kress was very short in the first season, compared to the two girls in their power trio. So he had to wear a very visible pair of giant platform boots. By the time season 2 started, he'd hit puberty with a deeper voice (mentioned on the show), and he was as tall as Carly. In the current episodes, he's starting to tower over Carly as well. In Season 4, Miranda Cosgrove has continued to get taller, while Jennette McCurdy has not, so in episodes from Season 4 onward, she starts wearing platform shoes.
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Scully Box / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle: Stana Katic is tall at 5'9" but Nathan Fillion is 6'1 1/2". Even though the show is called Castle, the two actors' roles are basically equal in importance. So Katic almost always wears 3- to 4-inch heels, which are her version of the box. This is Lampshaded quite often on the show as asides from other characters and it is very obvious when she is not wearing heels. This example is also unusual because height differences of only a few inches such as this usually don't cause an issue.
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Scully Box / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Required quite often on Heroes whenever Hayden Panettiere and Kristen Bell, who are both 5'1", share scenes with Zachary Quinto, who is 6'1".
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Scully Box / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Inverted in The Phantom Menace; the set designers had to spend an extra $150,000 adjusting some of the sets to accommodate Liam Neeson's 6'4" height without making the wise mentor figure look ridiculously oversized in some of the confined spaces.
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Scully Box / int_2d093686	comment	Invoked in Ball of Fire when Sugarpuss (5'5" Barbara Stanwyck) stacks and stands on two books to demonstrate "yum-yum" with Bertram (6'3" Gary Cooper).
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Scully Box / int_2d311a08	comment	An in-universe example in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode "Rondo in New York" when an action Hollywood star tours the theater to promote his latest film. The actor is really short and has a crew placing apple boxes as he walks by the crowd looking down on them, much to Michelangelo's disappointment.
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Scully Box / int_2feff3ce	comment	Grey's Anatomy, in-universe: Miranda Bailey is very short and can clearly be seen using a variant in the OR to ensure she is at the proper height when operating.
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Scully Box / int_303a56b4	comment	In Keeping the Faith, 5'6" Ben Stiller is paired with 5'10" Jenna Elfman. In an interview, Stiller said that he "needed shoe lifts and a good sense of humor in bed".
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Scully Box / int_3504b88e	comment	A variation happens in Mortal Kombat II and 3. Shao Kahn is played by bodybuilder Brian Glynn, who may be impressively muscular, but he isn't particularly tall. His digital sprite was resized to tower over the other characters. This is referenced in Mortal Kombat 11, where Frost makes a comment about Kahn being much shorter in person; fans have had a similar reaction when meeting Glynn at conventions.
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Scully Box / int_353b7af3	comment	In Star Trek: Discovery, 6'3" Doug Jones wears special "hooves" and (when his feet are not visible on camera) platform boots to appear a towering 6'8" as the Kelpien Saru.
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Scully Box / int_36065097	comment	In The Hunger Games films Jennifer Lawrence (5'7") and Josh Hutcherson (5'5"), who plays her main love interest, appear the same height when they are shown side by side. In reality, Lawrence is two inches taller. This is actually parodied in How It Should Have Ended's video of The Hunger Games, zooming out to show Peeta falling off the box after eating poisonous nightlock berries.
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Scully Box / int_39f32df7	comment	In From Russia with Love 5'10" Robert Shaw wore lifts to make his character, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. assassin Red Grant, look menacing enough next to 6'2" Sean Connery's James Bond.
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Scully Box / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, romantic scenes between a Dwarven Inquisitor and Iron Bull are identical to when you pursue him as any other race, despite Dwarves being half the size of Qunari. But a scene in the game's ending shows the Inquisitor standing on a stool so that Bull won't have to stoop down as much, with the humorous implication that your character is always standing on something when they make out. This was added to solve one of the animation issues that nearly made Bull's Romance Sidequest race-exclusive.
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Scully Box / int_3e374b30	comment	In The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy (5'9") needed three-inch heels to be able to look Christian Bale (6') in the eye, since having Bane be shorter than Batman would severely undermine the dynamic of the characters. Any shot that does show both of their feet is instead using their stunt doubles. This is also why Bane spends the entirety of the notorious opening sequence kneeling, sitting, or getting jostled around by the plane; Tom Hardy is a bit shorter than Aiden Gillen (also 5'9"), which would make the CIA agent's comment about him being a big guy a bit weird. Also employed in the "Do you feel in charge?" scene with John Daggett; Bane towers over Daggett in the sequence, but at 5'11", Ben Mendelsohn is actually a good two inches taller than Tom Hardy on level ground.
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Scully Box / int_3e649979	comment	In Vault of Horror, Tom Baker's character appears the second shortest out of the main cast in the framing story. Some elaborate scaffolding must have been used to achieve this, since he's the tallest out of the actors in reality, at 6'3".
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Scully Box / int_3f20226f	comment	The same effect is also used in a scene in Rocky III, where Stallone faces off against 6'6" wrestler Hulk Hogan.
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Scully Box / int_40e44a7a	comment	Inverted in Judge Dredd, where it's to make Sylvester Stallone tower over the young recruits.
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Scully Box / int_42f417ec	comment	In Spartacus, 5'9" Kirk Douglas wore thick sandals, stood on elevated ground (or had the people surrounding him stand in trenches) to make himself appear taller. Douglas often wore lifts to appear taller in his movies. Frequent co-star Burt Lancaster once found Douglas' lifts during filming and hid them from him as a prank.
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Scully Box / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural Both Katie Cassidy (5'7") and Genevieve Padalecki (5'4") played the demon Ruby. Since almost all of their screen time was spent in the company of the 6'5" Jared Padalecki (Sam) and 6'1" Jensen Ackles (Dean), tall, spiky heels became a standard of Ruby's wardrobe from the get-go. Cassidy has stated these caused her to lose her balance on more than one occasion. According to Richard Speight Jr.. (Gabriel), he (5'8") had to use four of these while sharing a scene with Padalecki and Ackles. Without them, he wasn't even in the frame. One scene had Rowena (played by the 5'2" Ruth Connell) both wearing heels and standing on a curb while she talked to Sam, who was standing in the road gutter. She still just barely reaches Padalecki's shoulder.
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Scully Box / int_4737c653	comment	Elementary has the 5'2" Lucy Liu with 5'10" Jonny Lee Miller. This results in Joan Watson wearing quite a lot of heels.
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Scully Box / int_47dfc6f	comment	A similar trick was done in Total Drama. Since Sierra is just shy of One Head Taller than her crush Cody, the animators had to cheat whenever she employed a Marshmallow Hell and kept Cody's feet a few inches above the ground.
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Scully Box / int_4adb6310	comment	The cover of the Ramones' debut album tries to disguise the shortest (Tommy is standing on a ledge) and tallest members (the enormous - 6'6"! - Joey is slightly contorted).
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Scully Box / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Bernadette is played by the under 5' Melissa Rauch, but Howard, her boyfriend (later husband), isn't that much taller and thus it isn't that big of an issue. In one episode at her apartment, she got a ring at the doorbell and in order to look through the peephole, she had to use a step stool. Rauch mentioned that most of her family is pretty short and her husband is around 6', so whenever they get together it feels like he is visiting the Shire. Both Leonard and Howard are fairly short, which is commented upon frequently in the show. Leonard and Penny are generally the same height but if Penny wears high heels she towers over him. In one episode the group was having a formal cocktail party and Bernadette was complaining about climbing the stairs in high heels and Howard revealed he was wearing heels as well. After a confrontation, Sheldon comments that Howard seemed taller than normal.
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Scully Box / int_4ec6798d	comment	In The Wild Wild West 5'7" Robert Conrad wore large lifts in his boots, and the series had a policy not to cast female guest stars over 5'6".
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Scully Box / int_505c4cdb	comment	In Three Thousand Years of Longing, considering Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton are both very tall◊ (he at 6'2", she at 5'11"), there is judicious use of special effects and camera tricks to make the Genie a few feet taller than Alithea.
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Scully Box / int_5320ab5e	comment	Inverted in Columbo, where 5'6" Peter Falk was always slouching to appear even shorter than his real stature, making most people tower over the Lieutenant. In the episode "Fade In to Murder", TV actor Ward Fowler (William Shatner) is revealed to be wearing elevator shoes to increase his height (a technique 5'10" Shatner himself has used before), which serves as an important clue. It's Played for Laughs when Columbo tries on Fowler's special shoes while lurking around in his trailer.
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Scully Box / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959) uses it with the 7'2" Richard Kiel to push him past any remotely possible human height as an alien in the episode "To Serve Man."
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Scully Box / int_56dce3c2	comment	Done in-universe in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, where the High Evolutionary's assistants bring in a box so that he can suitably tower over Ayesha, one of his subordinates. (Respectively, Chukwudi Iwuji is 5'9", while Elizabeth Debicki is 6'3"; the height difference was real.)
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Scully Box / int_5b15000	comment	Inversion: interviewers like the 6'2" Mike Rome and 6' Tom Phillips often have to widen their stance so they don't appear taller than the wrestler they're interviewing. It's especially notable when interviewing the under 6' Finn Balor or Chris Jericho
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Scully Box / int_5bfd17b7	comment	Degrassi: Amanda Stepto, who played Spike, was 5'2" during Degrassi: The Next Generation, compared to her on-screen husband Stefan Brogren (Snake)'s 6'3", and so she either wore high shoes or stood on apple boxes to appear taller than she was.
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Scully Box / int_5ce00127	comment	Inverted in Rocky IV, where Ivan Drago, played by 6'4" Dolph Lundgren is deliberately shown towering over Rocky Balboa, played by 5'9" Sylvester Stallone (Evil Is Bigger). The same effect is also used in a scene in Rocky III, where Stallone faces off against 6'6" wrestler Hulk Hogan.
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Scully Box / int_627b3897	comment	An amusing example: Brad Garrett (Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond) was cast as comedian Jackie Gleason in a biographical movie (titled Gleason, naturally). Because Brad Garrett is known for being extremely tall (as in 6'8"!), everybody else in the cast had to wear platform shoes in all their scenes with him. (Never mind the fact that Gleason himself only stood at 5'10"!)
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Scully Box / int_64dd58b2	comment	This has been done digitally and with camera angles as of recently, most notably with Robbie "Hagrid" Coltrane (who at 6'1" is pretty big, but no giant) in the Harry Potter film series to make him seem like a half-giant.
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Scully Box / int_64e03e4b	comment	Much snickering was heard 'round the interwebs when a side photo of Mark Zuckerberg's April 2018 testimony before a Congressional committee revealed he was seated on a booster cushion.
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Scully Box / int_65cc8b36	comment	In Water for Elephants, Reese Witherspoon at roughly 5'1" shared the spotlight with Robert Pattinson, who is a foot taller. In an interview, she mentioned this was in liberal use for the kissing scenes.
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Scully Box / int_679edf73	comment	Terminator Genisys frequently disguises how Emilia Clarke is so much shorter than Jai Courtney and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then averts it in a comedic way when all three take mugshots, and it's clear the men are One Head Taller. Although Emilia is shown measured correctly whereas the men have been given extra height over their celebrityheights.com measurements. In general for the Terminator franchise, Schwarzenegger (~ 6'1") is above average height and massive but he's not that tall. Conveniently, the T-800 has a strong preference for outfits with boots.
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Scully Box / int_69392c59	comment	The Cinema Snob and Diamanda Hagan's crossover review of Myra Breckinridge starts by showing their height difference as they are standing in a corridor. But later as they're sitting in bed they are leveled, with Brad even bigger... due to him sitting on a pile of pillows (easier to see in the blooper reel), which Hagan laughs about and Brad says "If it's good enough for Humphrey Bogart, it's good enough for me!" The Snob's crossover review of Tromeo and Juliet with Brows Held High had the scenes of him confronting Kyle Kallgren in a corridor shown only up close. Once it gets to wider shot it's blatant why, as Kyle is taller.
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Scully Box / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe Robert Downey Jr. is 5'8" and had to wear some truly impressive◊ high heels while playing Iron Man since he spent most of the films sharing the screen with Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and all three tower over him. In Gwyneth's case, especially when she's in heels◊, which is also why she's visibly barefoot in the scene at the tower in The Avengers (2012). The blooper reel of Iron Man 3 shows Downey in a Scully Box while talking with the 5'9 1/2" Rebecca Hall (bonus: Tony's supposed to be in armor, and Hall is only in sneakers!). Scarlett Johansson is 5'3", and while the use of the box wasn't as obvious in The Avengers, it was made more apparent in Captain America: The Winter Soldier where most of her scenes were shared with Chris Evans, who is 6'0". To add, in shots where the two actors were together in full shots or full views of the actors together were required Johansson wore specially modified footwear with built-in heels, most notably during their scene in the mall while in disguise. Look carefully and you'll see Johansson wearing sneakers that have a profile closer to heeled boots while Evan's are proper sneakers. Prior to receiving the Super Serum, Steve Rogers spends the first third of Captain America: The First Avenger as a tiny 5'4" weakling, but still portrayed by Chris Evans with the help of a stand-in (who still wasn't scrawny enough) and digital alteration. Many scenes emphasize this height difference, requiring a lot of forced perspective and actors standing on raised boards (or Evans in a hole). Thor: Ragnarok introduces Valkyrie, who while badass is played by the 5'3 1/2" (1.62 m) Tessa Thompson, much shorter than◊ 6'3" Chris Hemsworth's Thor and◊ 6'2" Tom Hiddleston's Loki. Aside from wide shots - most blatantly when Val and Thor board a ship simultaneously and end up staring at each other - the camera tries to downplay the difference. Natalie Portman required a raised platform to portray Jane after her transformation to Mighty Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder. Portman in real life is the same height as Tessa Thompson at 5'3". But Jane's height as Mighty Thor is whopping 7 inches taller at 6'. This special effect is very noticeable, as Jane is nearly the same height as Chris Hemsworth Thor! Done in-universe in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, where the High Evolutionary's assistants bring in a box so that he can suitably tower over Ayesha, one of his subordinates. (Respectively, Chukwudi Iwuji is 5'9", while Elizabeth Debicki is 6'3"; the height difference was real.)
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Scully Box / int_6a7e6314	comment	Thor: Ragnarok introduces Valkyrie, who while badass is played by the 5'3 1/2" (1.62 m) Tessa Thompson, much shorter than◊ 6'3" Chris Hemsworth's Thor and◊ 6'2" Tom Hiddleston's Loki. Aside from wide shots - most blatantly when Val and Thor board a ship simultaneously and end up staring at each other - the camera tries to downplay the difference.
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Scully Box / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series In X-Men, James Marsden had to use these when filming around Hugh Jackman and Famke Janssen. At 5'9 1/2", Marsden is not short, but Janssen is 6'0" (not counting heels) and Jackman 6'2". This is especially ironic since Cyclops (Marsden) is canonically about a foot taller than Wolverine (Jackman), whose shortness is one of his most iconic traits.note For the record, in the comics Cyclops is 6'3", Jean Grey is 5'6" and Wolverine is 5'3". The DVD extras reveal Marsden playfully griping about this fact, and when the team arrives at the Statue of Liberty you can see in a wide shot just how big his boots were. In the second and third movies, scenes with Jean and Scott together were carefully framed so that their legs and feet were not visible because he was standing on boxes and she wasn't wearing shoes. While Apocalypse does wear combat boots in the comics, in the case of X-Men: Apocalypse they were used as an aid to make the average-sized Oscar Isaac (5' 7Â½"\1,71 m) more imposing even if not massive (he looks eye-to-eye with Michael Fassbender, who's three inches taller).
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Scully Box / int_6c4df4aa	comment	When the Granada Sherlock Holmes replaced David Burke's Watson with the shorter Edward Hardwicke, this trope came into play:
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Scully Box / int_6e94492	comment	This is actually parodied in How It Should Have Ended's video of The Hunger Games, zooming out to show Peeta falling off the box after eating poisonous nightlock berries.
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Scully Box / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville: Allison Mack (5'4") admits to using either a crate or a lifted "alley board" so she doesn't look short against "ostentatiously tall" Tom Welling (6'2 1/2"). It is the only way they could hug naturally with the 10 inches difference◊. Cassidy Freeman uses it a bit as well, despite being 5'8 1/2". Parodied in one scene in which Erica Durance kicks a stack of paper next to Tom Welling's feet (on-screen) before running to him. One of the more visible examples, as the moment in question eventually made it into the opening credits. Oddly, in "Upgrade", Callum Blue (6'1") is somehow shown to be several inches taller than Tom probably due to misuse of boxes.
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Scully Box / int_70814599	comment	Referenced in the behind-the-scenes scenes of the Stargate SG-1 self-parody Show Within a Show Wormhole Xtreme. The male lead requests a "half apple" for the kiss scene with a noticeably taller woman.
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Scully Box / int_7385bc4d	comment	One Doraemon comic has Nobita snooping through Doraemon's photobook from the future, including a snapshot Doraemon took with his girlfriend, Noramyako, where they're the same height with only their upper bodies visible. Nobita, using a gadget, makes the photo pan out and reveals that Doraemon was actually standing on a tree stump.
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Scully Box / int_73d7930f	comment	Similarly, spin-off Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rarely made any effort to conceal height differences between actors by allowing the 6'3" Cirroc Lofton to tower over virtually everyone else and the 5'7" Jeffrey Combs to appear much shorter than most of his costars. Most noticeable when the two share a scene.. They did usually have 5'7" Nana Visitor in heels to lend more strength to her character when dealing with the other main characters, who are all around 6' or taller, including 6' tall Terry Farrell.
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Scully Box / int_73dd3d5	comment	In the second and third movies, scenes with Jean and Scott together were carefully framed so that their legs and feet were not visible because he was standing on boxes and she wasn't wearing shoes.
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Scully Box / int_7d4c1e08	comment	Inverted in Capote, where 5'8" Philip Seymour Hoffman was often barefoot, standing in trenches, and filmed from specific camera angles to match the small stature of 5'3" writer Truman Capote.
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Scully Box / int_7d91105	comment	In Julie & Julia in order to have Meryl Streep (5'6") reflect the height of Julia Child (6'2"). They also used smaller-scale props and hired short actors to be extras in her scenes.
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Scully Box / int_7e1c656b	comment	In Scream 4, Emma Roberts, who at 5'1 1/2" was easily one of the smallest members of the cast (only Hayden Panettiere was shorter), had to wear seven-inch-high boots to avoid being towered over by her co-stars. Since she played the killer, it was extra important that she look like she wouldn't get knocked over by a strong wind.
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Scully Box / int_8022da5c	comment	In Young Mr. Lincoln, 6'1" Henry Fonda wore lifts to appear the height of 6'4" Abraham Lincoln.
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Scully Box / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: One of the extra bits of art depicts Dr. Beetle, who Gil notes in the comic proper is self-conscious about his height, standing on a box while ordering a clank about in his lab.
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Scully Box / int_8833918c	comment	In In Time Amanda Seyfried (5'2") is paired up with Justin Timberlake (5'11 1/2"). Rather than use a box or use perspective shots to try and hide the height difference the filmmakers decided to make it part of the character and Seyfried is never seen without a pair of very distinctive towering purple high heels.
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Scully Box / int_8adae002	comment	I, Claudius: Both used and referenced in Claudius' marriage to Plautia, whom he meets on his wedding day. When seated beside her, they're at eye level, but when they stand, Claudius is horrified to discover that she towers a full head taller over him. After gaping up at her for a moment, he looks down at her feet, obviously looking to see if she's standing on something, but she's not. The actress Jennifer Croxton actually was standing on a box, as she's of normal height.
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Scully Box / int_8c371d03	comment	Simon Pegg himself wore lifts in his shoes in The World's End because the actor playing his character's younger self was about 2 inches taller than he was.
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Scully Box / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee: Staging scenes is often difficult because of this, especially when 6'4" Cory Monteith was involved. Monteith was much taller than anyone else in the cast (even the cast members playing teachers), thus he spent a lot of time not only sitting but also leaning forward with his forearms resting on his thighs (otherwise seated cast members behind him still wouldn't be visible). Other times they actually used his height to their advantage; for example, when sharing a scene with Rachel, the camera sometimes switched to a shot closer to her perspective which only served to make him look even taller. Chris Colfer is slightly taller than his on-screen love interest Darren Criss but because Criss' character was meant to serve as a mentor-type figure, efforts were made to make him appear taller than Colfer, even in photo shoots promoting the show.
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Scully Box / int_8d814070	comment	Inversion. In the later seasons of MAS*H with Major Burns, Burns seems to get shorter, despite Larry Linville being 6'1" to Alan Alda's 6'2", and Mike Farrell's 6'3" (BJ, in particular, seems to be noticeably taller than Burns, while Trapper, played by Wayne Rogers who is also 6'3", did not). It may have been a nod to the movie, where Burns was played by Robert Duvall (5'9"), Hawkeye by Donald Sutherland (6'4"), and Trapper by Elliot Gould (6'2").
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Scully Box / int_8d85e141	comment	Used in-universe in Veep, where the Vice President's assistant has a folding stepping stool in his bag for her to use during speeches when the lectern is too tall. This is understandable, given that her actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 5'3". This causes Vice President Meyer some embarrassment in one episode when it's revealed that her box is made of a special metal alloy and costs $1200.
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Scully Box / int_8f4ee60f	comment	In Back to the Future, because Christopher Lloyd (6'1") is much taller than Michael J. Fox (5'4"), director Robert Zemeckis used camera tricks to avoid using one. For example, the two are rarely in the same shot together and, when they are, one is usually sitting down or much closer to the camera than the other. When Doc Brown is talking, he's often moving around so much that the viewer can't really tell how tall he is. Lloyd also improvised a hunch in his posture that helped give the character more of a Mad Scientist look.
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Scully Box / int_923dd091	comment	CollegeHumor: For the "Wait, How Tall is Grant?" video, numerous camera tricks are used to make Katie Marovitch and Zach Oyama look taller or shorter than the 6-foot-tall Grant O'Brien.
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Scully Box / int_942a5e7b	comment	Also inverted in Clifford, where 5'7" Martin Short was made to appear the height of a 12-year-old boy, using camera angles and other tricks.
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Scully Box / int_95f7353a	comment	On the cover of The Lone Gunmen comic book a publicity shot of the cast is used which due to lack of cropping, the Scully Box used to make Byers and Frohike the same height as the rest is very obvious.
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Scully Box / int_971e8e24	comment	RedLetterMedia has used this a few times: The Half in the Bag episode covering X-Men: Days of Future Past and A Million Ways to Die in the West has Mike mention (in his typical style) that Jay had to stand on a box to be "almost as tall as me". The Best of the Worst episode covering Bigfoot vs D.B. Cooper, Black Cougar, and Raw Force has Len Kabasinski suspiciously eyeing the wooden crate Jay is standing on, with Jay reacting with feigned ignorance. The scenario is then repeated with Mike, who is already tall enough, and subverted with Josh, much to Len's surprise.
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Scully Box / int_98744614	comment	In Brave, when Bear Elinor is standing, she is more than twice Merida's height. To fit both characters into the same shot, the animators sometimes sunk Bear Elinor into the floor a bit.
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Scully Box / int_9a7088bc	comment	In Star Trek: The Original Series, 5'9" William Shatner wore lifts and heels, and was often photographed from specific camera angles to look the same height as 6'0" Leonard Nimoy. In the episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?", they deliberately avoided showing Shatner and 6'3" Michael Forest standing next to each other. In "Court Martial", due to Shatner's complaints, the director re-staged a scene in which a much taller actor was originally supposed to stand next to Kirk and had him sit at a bar stool instead. In the first pilot, "The Cage", short females were deliberately cast as the Talosians, to make 6'0" Jeffrey Hunter (Captain Pike) appear towering height next to them. While Pike physically towers over the aliens, they dwarf him with their intellect and telepathic capabilities. Played for Laughs in "The Gamesters of Triskelion", where 5'6" Walter Koenig (Chekov) faced off against 6'7" Mickey Morton (Kloog), of course, not standing a chance, but providing a laugh for the audience. In "The Ultimate Computer", Shatner, Nimoy, and 5'10" DeForest Kelley stood on apple boxes next to 6'5" William Marshall (Dr. Daystrom).
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Scully Box / int_9b1333a5	comment	A bit of aside trivia, Cruise was the only actor in Top Gun that met the height requirements for a Navy fighter pilot. For comparison, Anthony "Goose" Edwards is 6'2", and was barely able to fit in the backseat of an F-14.
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Scully Box / int_9b891ef2	comment	Inverted in the Scary Movie series when actor Kevin Hart had to stand in a trench in order to be noticeably shorter than the other actors. Since Kevin Hart stands 5 feet 2 1/2 inches tall, it seems that he frequently employs this device, rather than subverting it as he did in this movie.
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Scully Box / int_9b9e565c	comment	In The Irishman, Robert De Niro wore shoes with humongous soles to tower above Al Pacino. The two actors are actually almost equal in height.
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Scully Box / int_a0ae46e	comment	In Toy Story, since Woody is actually much taller than Buzz, in scenes when they had to talk with each other but their feet wouldn't be in the frame, the animators would actually have Woody's legs clipping into the ground. They called it "Trenching", named for when trenches were dug for the much taller female co-stars of actor Alan Ladd (5'6") to make him appear at the same height as them.
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Scully Box / int_a250ef3	comment	Elliot Morgan and, during the early days, Philip DeFranco, are both significantly taller than the other members of SourceFed, so everyone else has to stand on an apple box in order to look similar heights.
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Scully Box / int_a3488a9c	comment	The Best of the Worst episode covering Bigfoot vs D.B. Cooper, Black Cougar, and Raw Force has Len Kabasinski suspiciously eyeing the wooden crate Jay is standing on, with Jay reacting with feigned ignorance. The scenario is then repeated with Mike, who is already tall enough, and subverted with Josh, much to Len's surprise.
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Scully Box / int_a8150af4	comment	In The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Morfydd Clark (5'3") filmed several key scenes sitting on a box to make sure she is at the same level with her taller co-stars. One such scene is when Galadriel talks to a blinded Miriel; in the behind-scenes, Morfydd is shown sitting on a box while talking to the queen. Notably a number of different techniques and perspectives are used with Clark and her costar Charlie Vickers' (5'11") Halbrand for him to appear only slightly taller. These are dropped◊ in the scene where Halbrand is revealed to be Sauron and it contributes to his utter No-Sell of her dagger attack.
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Scully Box / int_ab42c63a	comment	In Get Smart, Barbara Feldon was slightly taller than male lead Don Adams. This led to Adams standing on an apple crate or Feldon bending her knees and/or not wearing shoes so he would appear taller than she did in close-ups.
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Scully Box / int_ab900ff0	comment	The UK bus-side poster for Four Christmases has Reese Witherspoon visibly standing on a stack of boxed presents, as she's much shorter (5'1") than her co-star Vince Vaughn, who is... really damn tall (6'5").
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Scully Box / int_ad216b56	comment	Oshi no Ko: In-Universe, Aqua plays his father Hikaru in a dramatization of his mother Ai's life. They first met when Hikaru was in middle school, but Aqua was already eighteen during filming, so they had the other actors standing on a box offscreen.
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Scully Box / int_ad29dc16	comment	On All in the Family, Sally Struthers regularly wore platform shoes, as she was 5'1" while her TV husband, Rob Reiner, was 6'2". The height difference is played for laughs in a flashback to when their characters, Gloria and Mike, first met.
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Scully Box / int_ae4c6c24	comment	In Kindergarten Cop, Arnold Schwarzenegger (6'1") is often shown sitting in every scene he has with Linda Hunt (4'9").
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Scully Box / int_ae5fc2d6	comment	In The Sound of Music, 5'7" Julie Andrews wore flats and 5'9" Christopher Plummer wore lifts so he would appear tall next to her.
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Scully Box / int_aea78f81	comment	Charlotta of Granblue Fantasy is a Harvin who is very sensitive about her height and as such is prone to standing on large wooden boxes to look more dramatic. Her Light variation has her Victory pose as her standing on a stack of boxes that will alternate between putting her at even height with others to having her tower over them.
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Scully Box / int_b0b22636	comment	Wheel of Fortune puts the contestants on platforms that may be raised or lowered to fit their height and make spinning the Wheel easier. Sometimes averted with disabled contestants, who are allowed to bring a friend or family member to spin for them (and only spin, except on special weeks with two-player teams).
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Scully Box / int_b0bb89d8	comment	In Superman: The Movie and Superman II, 6'6" Jack O'Halloran wore platform boots, so his character, Non would appear superhumanly tall and tower over 6'4" Christopher Reeve.
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Scully Box / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied in the SNL debate in which Dukakis, played by Jon Lovitz, adjusted his position behind the lectern using a noisy motorized lift.
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Scully Box / int_b30ae4db	comment	It's mentioned several times on the commentaries that filming Game of Thrones could be a logistical nightmare when Peter Dinklage's Tyrion shared a scene with another actor, especially Charles Dance who plays his father Tywin and is a full two feet taller. They often resorted to these sorts of tricks or had Tywin sitting down to make framing easier.
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Scully Box / int_b370dc96	comment	James Whitmore wore lifts in his shoes during the filming of Them! to compensate for the full foot difference in height between him and his costar, James Arness. (One assumes this was common with the six-foot-eight Arness, including in his most famous role on Gunsmoke.)
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Scully Box / int_b4cdfaa	comment	Used in Notorious for the diminutive Claude Rains (5'6") in some of his shots with Bergman, including one scene where he enters a room and ascends a ramp◊ as he approaches the camera (and Bergman).
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Scully Box / int_b7b81c45	comment	Used in-story by Linda Hunt's character in Silverado. Kevin Kline first meets her while she's in front of the bar. When she goes around to the other side, she's suddenly a foot taller. He leans over and looks behind the bar to see a ramp along the other side for her to stand on and comfortably reach the bartop. She has a very philosophical view of things, though.
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Scully Box / int_bad6ce79	comment	In X-Men, James Marsden had to use these when filming around Hugh Jackman and Famke Janssen. At 5'9 1/2", Marsden is not short, but Janssen is 6'0" (not counting heels) and Jackman 6'2". This is especially ironic since Cyclops (Marsden) is canonically about a foot taller than Wolverine (Jackman), whose shortness is one of his most iconic traits.note For the record, in the comics Cyclops is 6'3", Jean Grey is 5'6" and Wolverine is 5'3". The DVD extras reveal Marsden playfully griping about this fact, and when the team arrives at the Statue of Liberty you can see in a wide shot just how big his boots were.
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Scully Box / int_bc849a80	comment	As revealed in the Special Effects commentary tracks for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem's special edition, this was used to make the 6'2" Tom Woodruff Jr.'s Predalien tower over the 7'1" Ian Whyte's Predator.
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Scully Box / int_bc8b07	comment	The "Artists vs. TMNT" Epic Rap Battles of History behind the scenes shows that 3 sets of boxes were required for Link, Ian and Anthony so that their heights could align with the exceedingly tall Rhett.
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Scully Box / int_be0a0be1	comment	Both Anya Geraldine and Jefri Nichol reveal on their social media that Jefri stands on some planks to make him taller than Anya in Noah's "Bintang di Surga" music video.
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Scully Box / int_bea125df	comment	Baby Daddy actually came up with a clever piece of set design for this, no doubt since their cast already existed in the extremes, with the 5'4" Tahj Mowry sharing scenes with the 5'10"-and-heeled Melissa Peterman and the 6'6" Derek Theler. Realizing they had large height differences to deal with, they seemed to design the sets with this in mind, such as the bar set◊ being designed with a staircase in the background for the actors to line up their heights on (this came in really handy when the aforementioned Theler got a love interest played by the 5'2" Lacey Chabert, a full sixteen inches shorter than he.) This only seems to be used for blocking, however, as the show will often use the height differences of their actors as a source of humor.◊
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Scully Box / int_bee7dcfe	comment	For comedy's sake, Jojo Rabbit had the already tall Stephen Merchant (as in 6'8") standing on a box in a scene with Sam Rockwell so he'd be downright humungous.
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Scully Box / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	When Drowtales released its 14th chapter the cover showed Ariel and Chirinide standing back to back and at even heights, even though other pages show that Ariel is about a head shorter. The joke naturally became that she's standing on a stump, or in one piece of fanart, Rikshakar. Ironically after a 15-year timeskip, Ariel is now so tall that she has a full head of height on everyone in her squad.
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Scully Box / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: 5'6" Louise Jameson wore knee-high moccasins with a wedge heel as Leela because she was co-starring with 6'3" Tom Baker. Used in the promotional pictures for the TV-Movie to make Paul McGann appear to be taller than Sylvester McCoy. In reality McGann, with his height of 5'8.5" (1.74 meters), is pretty close to McCoy's 5'6" (1.68 meters). During John Barrowman's first five episodes, Billie Piper had to stand on a box whenever she was in a scene with him since he is seven inches taller than she is. This is an unusual example given that John Barrowman and Christopher Eccleston are the exact same height (6'), and she never did so with the latter. It probably has to do with the mystique of the Doctor. Freema Agyeman is below-average height, so Martha Jones is almost constantly wearing heels. Used In-Universe in the Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned", where Kylie Minogue's character stands on a box to kiss David Tennant. It's Played for Laughs. This was needed, but the actual box technique itself was averted, come time for Matt Smith to step into the shoes of the Doctor. For his most iconic enemy, the Daleks, those that remained were tailored for Billie Piper's height previously, but instead of employing any camera trickery or boxes, they simply redesigned a new set of Daleks to match Smith's considerably taller frame. Unfortunately, they weren't very popular with the fans and have since been benched. Jenna Coleman, measuring all of 5'2", has stated that an apple box is required for some shots with 6-foot-tall Peter Capaldi. Her character Clara Oswald's penchant for wearing heels is clearly due to this trope as well.
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Scully Box / int_c46cf0c1	comment	The Green Mile made his character look much taller, which especially came in handy next to the similarly tall David Morse and James Cromwell who is even taller.
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Scully Box / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Spoofed in the Monty Python's Flying Circus skits: In "Scott of the Sahara", an actress is standing in a trench on her own feet, while the actor with her is on a box. The result is a ridiculous height disparity. And then, when the actor suggests that he get off the box and she gets out of the trench in order to bring them more-or-less on the same level, she flounces off in a huff because she never works outside of a trench. In a skit about horse jockeys, several jockeys are so short that only their hats are visible in frame. Another jockey is so short that he has to stand on a box just to make his hat visible.
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Scully Box / int_cc32f7c3	comment	For the band photo featured on the back cover of Black Sabbath's 1980 album Heaven and Hell, 5'3" singer Ronnie James Dio stood on a ledge to appear the same height as his bandmates.
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Scully Box / int_cdcf337d	comment	8 Out of 10 Cats host Jimmy Carr has to have a cushion placed on his seat so he can see over his desk. This led to a fairly hilarious scene when guest David Walliams "outed" him by insisting that he stand up, and then removing the cushion, leaving Jimmy about four inches shorter all of a sudden. Also subverted since Jimmy Carr is a good 6 feet tall, so it's more of an issue with the set (or for entirely comedic purposes).
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Scully Box / int_d2b52919	comment	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: The raised platform holding the desk serves a similar purpose: observant viewers will note that Jon Stewart, who is 5'6", always shakes the guest's hand before they step up onto the platform. It's just a matter of not looking silly, though; Stewart doesn't hide his height and indeed jokes about it constantly. He explicitly lampshaded the trope by jumping on the platform to briefly look taller than 6'4" Conan O'Brien during a MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois crossover between their shows and The Colbert Report. In 2012, Stewart took part in a televised debate with 6'4" Bill O'Reilly in which he used a platform to obscure the height difference. While this is common in such debates (in part to prevent people from subconsciously deciding the winner based on who's taller, which is absolutely a thing that can happen), you don't usually see one of the participants use a motorized version of the platform during the debate to rise up and tower over an already pretty tall opponent. Stewart mostly did this to defuse tension and get some laughs.
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Scully Box / int_d3634dbb	comment	In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart (5'8") had to stand on a box to kiss Bergman (5'9").
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Scully Box / int_d68df17d	comment	Top Gear: Richard Hammond was once seen to be standing on a box so he could see over the bonnet of a Cadillac Escalade.
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Scully Box / int_da3a2b69	comment	In The Munsters, already very tall (6'5") Fred Gwynne wore platform boots to appear superhumanly tall as Herman Munster.
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Scully Box / int_dbf18509	comment	Jeopardy! originally used boxes, but has since switched to risers, so that shorter contestants may see over the podiums and to make all contestants roughly the same height to make pan shots easier to manage. This was humorously referenced on the celebrity episode of February 9, 2001, on which Seth Green was a contestant: The 1993 College Tournament winner Phoebe Juel recounted that the coordinators had to search the studio for more boxes because the ones which were on hand were still too small for her.
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Scully Box / int_dc4363c5	comment	Melissa Rauch also had this taken to new levels when she was on True Blood as she spends most of her screentime with 6'4" Jim Parrack.
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Scully Box / int_de8f6b17	comment	Invoked in Godzilla (1998). Charles Caiman (played by 5'6" Harry Shearer) meets his new co-anchor for the first time while she's sitting in her chair on set. He sits next to her and the top of his head barely meets her chin. With the news starting in a few seconds, he desperately asks the producer for a pillow or phone book, then resorts to holding himself up by the arms on his chair.
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Scully Box / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: While Angel was in the series, Sarah Michelle Gellar (5'4") had to stand on a box just so she could be seen in the same frame as the much taller David Boreanaz (6'1"). The later seasons had her wear high heels to have Buffy appear taller than Dawn. James Marsters, who plays Spike, has admitted that he would wear lifts in his shoes so that he would look about equal height to David Boreanaz. Though it was bizarrely not used during Buffy's romance with Riley, with the 6'2" Marc Blucas (who'd even hoped to become a pro basketball player before getting into acting) having to practically bend himself in half to kiss Gellar. In "Once More, With Feeling", for a scene where Willow and Tara walk through the park, Alyson Hannigan can be seen wearing high heels in order to minimize the three-inch height difference between herself and Amber Benson.
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Scully Box / int_e4b5f973	comment	While Apocalypse does wear combat boots in the comics, in the case of X-Men: Apocalypse they were used as an aid to make the average-sized Oscar Isaac (5' 7Â½"\1,71 m) more imposing even if not massive (he looks eye-to-eye with Michael Fassbender, who's three inches taller).
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Scully Box / int_e52e9eea	comment	In Interview with the Vampire, Cruise was placed on an elevated platform in some scenes, interacting with 5'11" Brad Pitt and other actors playing vampires.
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Scully Box / int_e5feb1e	comment	Sometimes used in-universe in Ace Attorney when somebody is too short for the witness stand, such as Cody Hackins from the first game, who is a young boy. Apollo lampshades this in the fifth game when a witness makes fun of him for being short, while the witness himself needs a box to testify.
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Scully Box / int_e8fb844e	comment	Daredevil used this in conjunction with Hitler Cam to make him tower over Ben Affleck who is also 6'4".
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Scully Box / int_ec02633a	comment	Yennefer in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is actually very small compared to most other characters. Her height compared to others can seem inconsistent in cutscenes where her feet aren't visible because she is often levitating off the ground to get the proper angle.
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Scully Box / int_ef076a36	comment	In Star Trek: Voyager 5'4 1/2" Kate Mulgrew wore heels as Captain Janeway, so she would appear to be more of a commanding presence next to her co-stars, including 5'11 1/2" Tim Russ and 6'0 1/2" Robert Duncan McNeill.
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Scully Box / int_ef661e97	comment	Since the way all characters despite their size take cinematic attacks the same in Street Fighter, in order to fit the frame some of the smaller characters such as Ibuki often are made to float from the ground in ways that can't be seen in camera, while some of the bigger characters actually clip into the ground a bit to fit the same scenes.
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Scully Box / int_ef894e37	comment	In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Scott Michael Foster is 6'2'' making him 11 inches taller than Rachel Bloom. For the most part this is played for comedy and included in the show, but their tango number "Horny Angry Tango" required them to be face to face at several points. As the choreographer puts it "What if she was on a platform that was 8 inches tall and she had 3 inch heels."
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Scully Box / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother has 6'4" Marshall paired with 5'4" Lily, which is sometimes commented on. But the rest of the male cast is still above 6' and the other female cast member Robin is a fairly tall 5'9", which leaves Lily as often wearing high heels even when lounging around at home.
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Scully Box / int_f1da64b5	comment	The Lord of the Rings: Pretty much everyone of average height who shared a scene with Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, or any other hobbits in the trilogy, in order to make the hobbits seem shorter, in conjunction with forced perspective and body doubles. The sole exception was John Rhys Davies, who (by sheer coincidence) is as much taller than the hobbit actors as a dwarf is supposed to be, so shots involving only them could dispense with any height trickery. The same trick was used in The Hobbit movies, especially as the Dwarf actors (as well as Martin Freeman) interact with taller characters like Gandalf and Thranduil. Speaking of Thranduil, this happened to practically anybody who shared close-ups with the 6'5" Lee Pace. In long shots, he towers over pretty much everyone but in closer shots, most of the other actors had to stand on something. While Galadriel is frequently shown walking around barefoot, Cate Blanchett (5'8") had to wear platform "disco boots" under her dresses to better match the height of the actors playing the other elves.
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Scully Box / int_f2e1b686	comment	The Half in the Bag episode covering X-Men: Days of Future Past and A Million Ways to Die in the West has Mike mention (in his typical style) that Jay had to stand on a box to be "almost as tall as me".
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Scully Box / int_f3d3a91c	comment	In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, for the scenes where Jen Walters has turned into her taller alter-ego, Tatiana Maslany used such trickery (along with a cutout of She-Hulk's face above her head) to give the co-stars reference before she was replaced with a CG She-Hulk.
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Scully Box / int_f43685a2	comment	In the infamous Battlefield Earth movie, John Travolta and Forest Whitaker walked on stilts to appear 10-foot tall as the alien Psychlos.
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Scully Box / int_f53905a3	comment	In every close-up shot that the 5'9" tall Mel Gibson shares with the 5'11" Sigourney Weaver in the film The Year of Living Dangerously, he's on a box so that it looks like he's taller than she is.
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Scully Box / int_f5799bd9	comment	Jeremy Hawke in The Critic is apparently very, very short (18" shorter than he appears), and disguises it with heels. When one heel breaks, he starts running very askew.
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Scully Box / int_fab472d2	comment	In Dark Souls, Solaire of Astora's model is blatantly floating in the air to give the impression he's about half a head taller than the player character. Also true of the Crestfallen Merchant in Sen's Fortress, but the layout of the room he's in (including a floor texture that plays with visual perception) make it harder to notice except when close up. By the time of the sequel, the developers overcame the issue, as demonstrated with Vengarl, who's really that tall.
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Scully Box / int_ff30c757	comment	Similarly, in Gaslight, Charles Boyer — being the same height as his leading lady — stood on a box for head and shoulders two-shots with Bergman.
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Scully Box / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Inverted in Star Trek: The Next Generation, where due to Jonathan Frakes (6'3 1/2") being significantly taller than most of the cast, Riker was often shown leaning forward in a Captain Morgan Pose, simply because it was the only way they could manage to fit him into frame. Heck, an old back injury and the fact that he was even too tall for many of the sets and props led to the so-called "Riker Maneuver" where Frakes would swing his leg over a chair before sitting down, sometimes all the way over the back! 5'3" Marina Sirtis wore heels on the show to appear in the same frame with Frakes. In the episode "Rightful Heir", 5'6" Kevin Conway was cast as the clone of legendary Klingon warrior Kahless. Given that Klingons are usually portrayed as big tall people, and to avoid being dwarfed by 6'2" Michael Dorn, Conway wore (very noticeable) platform boots, boosting his height to 5'11".
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