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Tom Cruise, 5-foot-7, Same Height as Cameron Diaz, 5-foot-9, at 'Knight & Day' Tokyo Premiere - and She Wore Four-Inch Heels!

by Mark Marino (Subscribe to Mark Marino's posts)
Posted Sep 30th 2010 at 9:25AM  
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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz look to be the same height (they are so not!) at a movie premiere in Japan. Photo: Kiyoshi Ota, Getty Images

Tom Cruise managed to pull of a mission impossible at the Tokyo premiere of his film "Knight & Day" when the 5-foot-7 actor appeared on the red carpet looking nearly the same height as 5-foot-9 co-star Cameron Diaz -- who was wearing four-inch heels! (That's a six-inch height difference. But who's counting?)

Standing side-by-side, Cruise, clad in a black V-neck sweater, white shirt, blue jeans, and chunky black boots, and Diaz, who was poured into a belted black dress by Bottega Veneta paired with multicolored Jimmy Choo heels, practically matched each other inch for inch, reports the Daily Mail.

Did Cruise have a sudden growth spurt or was it some kind of illusion pulled off with the help of his filmmaker pal Steven Spielberg's special effects department?


Neither, it turns out. According to the Daily Mail, the couch-jumping superstar may have reached new heights with the help of shoe lifts, special inserts placed inside a man's shoe to raise his heel and make him taller.

Perhaps his shoe-loving little princess Suri tipped him off to them?

The Daily Mail reports that a single pair of the tootsie transformers costs between £50 and £100 ($79 and $159 U.S.), while a bespoke pair could set a guy like Cruise back a whopping £1,700 ($2,700 U.S.).

Pricey to be sure, but it's not like Cruise can't afford it and use the height boosters again: He's currently filming "Mission: Impossible 4," co-starring 6-foot-1 1/2 Josh Holloway and 5-foot-10 Jeremy Renner, who will no doubt find working with Cruise to be an uplifting experience.

In related news, see what Cruise's wife, Katie Holmes, wore to a recent Calvin Klein event.
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TCS, 9-30-2010, 2:18PM

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TCS

LITTLE man syndrome, what a creep he is....

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Bobbi, 9-30-2010, 2:28PM

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Bobbi

Sadly, I agree...

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Raphael, 9-30-2010, 2:44PM

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Raphael

The writer of this article certainly has some short commings himself when the only thing one can find to write about Tom Cruise is his height. This is another nothing @$$ article by a writer who himself just doesnt measure up!!!! My wife is 5'2 & I never look at her height because she is more than just the sum of her parts she's a great person . Imagine if we all judged you based off of your tiny salary next to Tom Cruise. I guess we all know who comes up short there buddy !!!!!

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tennwilliams, 9-30-2010, 2:48PM

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tennwilliams

is that you Tom?

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Kelly, 10-03-2010, 9:31PM

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Kelly

RIGHT?!

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John, 9-30-2010, 9:30PM

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John

If he felt he needed 6inch lifts to pose with Diaz, what is he going to use with Holloway? Stilts? To what end? His height isn't a secret, nor anything he should be ashamed of.

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ron, 9-30-2010, 3:12PM

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I worked a live sporting event a couple months ago attended by Tom Cruise and spent a lot of time standing next to him. I'm 5'10" and he and I were pretty much the same height. He's not 5'7".

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Pam, 9-30-2010, 3:45PM

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Yes, he is 5'7'. He is wearing lifts. You can't see them because they are INSIDE of the shoe. Just because he "seemed" your height doesn't mean he actually is.

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bob, 9-30-2010, 3:12PM

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I still can't see the moon walking bear!

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Cher, 9-30-2010, 4:33PM

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Cher

WOW .......WHO CARES ABOUT MR. C WHEN WE WILL HAVE THE
AWESOME JOSH TO LOOK AT!!!!!! I WILL TAKE JOSH ANYDAY AND
I'M SURE I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE. GLAD TO SEE HE IS BACK
AND IN A MOVIE....WAY TO GO JOSH!!!!!!!!

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Mimi, 10-04-2010, 5:43AM

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Mimi

You are so right! Josh Holloway is delicious!!

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gary, 9-30-2010, 4:31PM

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gary

Look carefully. She looks taller than Tom. Her hair is down and his is up. And maybe she lied about her height.

anyway Much ado about absolutely Nothing

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Lisa, 9-30-2010, 4:38PM

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Ut-Oh. I think Cameron Diaz is lying about her height... :-O

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Kaci, 9-30-2010, 4:40PM

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I like Tom Cruise and truly don't care how tall he is right now. He's a good actor, a loving father and he has a beautiful wife in Katie. A lucky guy.

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PastaRasta, 9-30-2010, 4:47PM

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He's kinda like that North Korean dictator dude -- the one with the pompadour 'do to make him look taller than he really is.

That's kinda like what Scientology is -- the North Korea of religions.

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rfarmour, 9-30-2010, 5:03PM

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rfarmour

TOM CRUISE IS A PIECE OF #%@* AND ALWAYS WILL BE

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fymayawf, 9-30-2010, 5:52PM

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rfarmour - That explains the smell!

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R Baby Kat, 9-30-2010, 5:51PM

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R Baby Kat

Alan Ladd was a handome, talented actor. He was very short and was noted for wearing lifts in his shoes, or even stand on a box while filmiing. Many of our former matinee idols were quite short...James Cagney, Audie Murphy, Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Mickey Rooney and I think Tyrone Power was not all that tall either. Of course, the leading ladies (and most women of that era, only averaged about 5'3" in height. We had very few who were really tall or large like today's generation. Sonya Heinie was very tiny and petite.

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RobRal, 9-30-2010, 6:03PM

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Is he on Oprah's couch again?

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Gil, 9-30-2010, 6:13PM

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Gil

If he boosted his height that would mean he had to go to a Dr. isn't that against his RELIGION. Unless he used the same slaves he used to make sure his lawn was green when they worked 24 hours a day before he would move in as ankle weights.

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