I used to think that when there were going to be people who died in a movie, the producers held a meeting of people who wanted to die in real life and then chose someone to cast in the movie and that person actually died.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I use to beliee that if someone got shot or lost a limb in a movie they actually did in real life. Anon
- I used to believe that the credits at the end of a movie was a list of people in that were watching it.— jon_
- I used to believe that when people died, they vanished into thin air. — KJ