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• Laura Dern is speaking about the limitations she's lived with because of her height

• The actress, who is nearly 6 feet tall, took part in an interview for The Independent alongside her costar Andra Day and talked about how her height has affected her career

• Dern is one of the many female celebrities who've opened up about their height

Laura Dernis offering insight on how it is up there — up there being the view at 5'11."

The actress, 58, spoke toThe Independentabout her latest film and during the conversation opened up about how her height — plus having a "radically tall torso" — has impacted her acting career.

"I was 5'11" at 12 years old and acting already, so I was losing parts constantly!" the star said in an interview published on Jan. 31, joking that she's been rejected for roles about "150 times."

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That's why filming oppositeWill ArnettinBradley Cooper'sIs This Thing On?was so great (Arnett is an impressive 6′2″).

"It means that when Will and I are sitting side by side, we're the same height. And it's crazy to be in a scene with a male actor, and we're actually looking straight into each other's eyes, you know?"

Dern's statuesque figure did make her look like a natural at Paris Fashion Week, especially when she made herrunway debut in the Gabriela Hearst showthis past October. In fact, theBig Little Liesstar commanded the catwalk in her look — a romantic floral appliqué dress and sandals.

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She's also not the first celebrity to speak out about how Hollywood treats tall people. Her friendNicole Kidman, who stands at Dern's height, said she once lied about her measurements in the hopes of securing a role inAnnie.

"I had to talk my way through the door because they were measuring you before you went in. I was mortified," she said on theRadio Times Podcastin January 2024. So, she told them she was "5 ft. 10½ in."

In the same interview, the Oscar winner relayed hergrievances over wearing heelsfor public events. "Whenever you go on the red carpet, they send the shoes, and the shoes are always so high. And I'm like, 'Do they have a kitten heel? I'm just gonna be the tallest person — the giraffe!'"

Game of ThronesandWednesdaystar Gwendoline Christine, who is over 6 feet tall, was also once"concerned" about being "cast-able"because of her appearance. Although she believed if she molded herself to societal standards that things might work out, she realized: "No, I'm not going to make any effort to fit in."

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Despite her famous father's wishes,Teddi Mellencampis adamant about recovering from stage four cancer in the comfort of her own home.

The former "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star heard John Mellencamp's plea to move back to Indiana so that she could heal in peace — and be closer to him — but she's not moving anytime soon.

Teddi, 44, who was recently revealed as Calla Lilly on "The Masked Singer," cited a few important reasons as to why she wouldn't be leavingLos Angelesfor the Midwest.

John Mellencamp Wants Daughter Teddi To Move 'Back Home' To Indiana During Cancer Fight

During an appearance on"The Today Show"earlier this year, the "Jack & Diane" singer admitted he tried to talk Teddi into moving home during her cancer battle.

"I said, 'Move back to Indiana, bring the kids and just come back and live in Indiana,' but she won't do it," he said.

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Teddi was taken aback when she heard her dad's words, and confessed during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, "I'm not going to Indiana."

WATCH: Teddi Mellencamp laughs off dad's plea to move out of Hollywood

"I have all these kids, they go to school here," Teddi said. "Edwin [Teddi's estranged husband]lives here … Come on. Between him saying that, and I'm suffering, I'm like, you're really putting me through the wringer."

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She added, "I get a call from my publicist. She's like, 'Hey, anything we need to talk about? And I'm, like, 'By suffering, he means I'm depressed right now."

The"Cherry Bomb" singernoted in his "Today" spot that Teddi had both good and bad days, and usually feels like herself until she receives immunotherapy treatment which makes her "feel like hell for about four days."

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"You can't say you're cancer-free with the type of cancer she's got for three years," he explained. "So she has lesions in her brain, it went from her back, just a little, teeny spot on her. Over the last couple years it grew, and it gotinside her brain and her lungs."

The co-host of "Two T's in a Pod"podcast thought her father was only looking out for her best interests.

"Of course he wants me there. I mean, he checks on me every single day on the phone," she told Fox News Digital. "And there are some days where I'm laughing, and I'm having the best time, and there's some days when I'm crying, and I feel like I don't know how I'm going to do this another day."

She noted that John "sees the highs and lows" as she recovers from cancer.

"I think he wants to be there for them [her kids] and he knows that he lives far away. But lucky for him, I have a great support of friends out here."

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She hasn't completely ruled out a move, but don't count on Teddi to start packing for chillier weather.

"Sometimes I think I would go to where my sister lives … in Hilton Head,South Carolina,and that's where I'm from," she said. "He has a house kind of near there. So if I would ever go home, it would be to South Carolina, not Indiana. No offense to Indiana, but I do not like cold weather."

As for competing on "The Masked Singer," Teddi says "it was so exciting" for her kids.

"It's their favorite show. So like, they were beyond excited. They knew the second they heard my voice that it was me, because I had kept it a secret from them," she shared. "And so they were, beyond excited, but other than that, I mean I would say 'Masked Singer' has done so much for me, because leading up to it, I had been really, really sick. And I even see improvement in my emotions now, you know, like you could see if you watch closely when I was singing, my hands were really shaking.

"And I had kind of forgotten how much I was shaking. And then when I watching that, I was like, oh yeah, I forgot that, because when you're recovering, you forget, you kind of only think about the negative, not the positive. And I'm like, that is a huge positive. That drove me crazy. I couldn't write. Like my hands were shaking so bad that I couldn't write. Like now, my hands don't shake at all. Like you've gotta be grateful for those things, because it is happening whether it's happening on my timeframe or not."

WATCH: Teddi Mellencamp says 'The Masked Singer' helped her heal

Teddi first shared she was diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma in March 2022, and later shared in April 2025 that her skin cancer hadgrown to stage 4and that it had spread to her brain and lungs. She had surgery to remove the tumors on her brain, saying at the time that while getting them removed, doctors ended up finding more.

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Later that month, a scan showed her tumors were decreasing in size. One of the many debilitating effects she suffered from on her cancer journey was her inability to speak clearly. Her stint on "The Masked Singer" helped her in more ways than one.

"'The Masked Singer' has done so much for me because leading up to it, I had been really, really sick," Teddi said. "And I even see improvement in my motions now. . . . You could see if you watch closely when I was singing, my hands were really shaking. And I had kind of forgotten how much I was shaking.

"Then when I was watching that, I was like, 'Oh yeah, I forgot that,' because when you're recovering, you forget, you kind of only think about the negative, not the positive. And I'm like, that is a huge positive. That drove me crazy."

She added, "I couldn't write, like my hands were shaking so bad that I couldn't write. Now my hands don't shake at all … you've gotta be grateful for those things, because it is happening, whether it's happening in my timeframe or not."

Her "timeframe" hasn't always aligned with her actual path. Teddi admitted last year that her father insisted she finalize burial plans and make sure her will is up to date.

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"Yesterday, my dad calls me 11 times in a row. Finally, I answer, I'm like, 'I'm in the bath. Let me live a little,'" Teddi explained. "He goes, 'I just want to make sure you're going to be in our group family mausoleum.'"

She added, "He's like, 'Well, there's going to be the top five, and then we're gonna have little areas around it, and then that's where everyone's going to get buried.' He goes, 'You'redoing your will right now, so you may as well put it in there.'"

In the end, she said, "I think I agreed to be in the mausoleum," and joked that someone she had met not too long ago had inspired her to get "Hot girls never die" put on her tombstone.

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As many of us who were teenagers in the '90s might recall, Pearl Jam's "Black" (from the 1991 albumTen) was pretty much the go-to song for young Gen X-ers going through a breakup.Eddie Vedder's passionate vocals and desperate lyrics were just the thing for high school heartbreak: "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life / I know you'll be a star / In somebody else's sky / But why, why, why can't it be / Oh, can't it be mine?"

Now, 35 years later, it turns out those lovelorn lines are just as relevant as ever.

AsForbesreported, Pearl Jam's "Black" is back on the charts; specifically,Billboard'sHard Rock Streaming Songschart, which tallies hard rock songs getting the most streams on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. "Black" debuted at #24, the only hard rock debut of the week.

Somewhat surprisingly, this is only the second time Pearl Jam has appeared on the Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart. A little less than three years ago, "Evenflow" enjoyed a short stay on the same chart, though it peaked at #25.

Pearl Jam's 'Black' was never released as a single

While it's been a fan-favorite for decades, "Black" was never actually released as a single. Though the record company hoped to turn the emotional tune into a big hit, Vedder refused, according toGenius.

"Fragile songs get crushed by the business," he said. "I don't want to be a part of it. I don't think the band wants to be part of it."

As the singer once explained, "Black" is really about "letting go," perGrunge.

"It's very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth's gravitational pull and where it's going to take people and how they're going to grow," he said. "I've heard it said that you can't really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It's a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can't have forever."

Harsh indeed.

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As fans from around the countrydescend on Californiato watch the New England Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks in Sunday'sSuper Bowl, officials are telling them to leave their drones at home.

The police chief in Santa Clara, where this year's big game will be played, said authorities are prepared to shoot down a drone, if necessary.

Unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, can be easily purchased online and are increasingly popular with hobbyist drone pilots, including sports fans who want to film their favorite events.

But the risks posed by drones are real, whether a hobbyist drone malfunctions and falls into the stands or a bad actor uses a drone to drop something into the stadium.

Retired Army Col. Bill Edwards, who runs counter-drone training at Washington, D.C.-based tech company ENSCO, expects people will try to fly drones at the big game.

"We have to expect it at every major event that's happening in the country," Edwards said in an interview.

To get ahead of the issue, the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a ban on all drone flights over the Super Bowl, which has been classified by the federal government as a top special event that merits extensive interagency support.

The FAA says it is collaborating with the FBI to detect, track and assess unauthorized drone activity, and drone operators who fly them in restricted airspace without authorization face fines of up to $75,000, confiscation of their drone and federal criminal charges.

Law enforcement agencies working on Super Bowl security use layers of responses and mitigation efforts for drones.

"Everything from ground intercept teams to contact the pilot on the ground to redirecting it, landing it or even shooting it down depending on the circumstances," Santa Clara Police Chief Cory Morgan said.

Technological advancements to drones made overseas during the Russia-Ukraine war and conflicts in the Middle East pose new challenges to law enforcement.

Edwards, who trains such police departments as the New York Police Department on drone threat mitigation, points to fiber-optic drones that can evade radio frequency detection systems as a particular concern.

"It's promulgating the technology's capability 20 years into the future — now," he said. He also said, "The threat level has increased a hundredfold."

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