MCU: 10 Fascinating Facts Behind The Avengers (2012)

9. Why Pepper Potts Wears No Shoes

In an ironic twist of events, some of Robert Downey Jr's scenes in The Avengers hark back to something that's often suggested of Tom Cruise, who was once in line to play Tony Stark in a pre-MCU Iron Man movie. And it's all down to height.

In some of Stark's scenes with Pepper Potts, Gwyneth Paltrow walks around barefoot as a quirk of her character. She's more of a free spirit than Tony, which is clearly what that was supposed to be selling. But in actual fact, it was because Downey Jr is just 5'8" and Paltrow is 5'9".

So when she's barefoot, Tony is wearing platform shoes in order to make sure Tony was taller than Pepper. People care about weird things sometimes.