I used to think that the actors who died in movies actually died. I thought the directors had a casting call before shooting the movie where people who wanted to die would line up and get assigned parts.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- As a child I used to think that actors really died in movies.— Jordi Comendador
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I used to believe people really died in movies. I didnt understand they were just acting.— Justin
- I used to think that the laugh track on sitcoms were the camera men, directors, other actors, ect. laughing.Anon
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero