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I believed number 1 as well! I took it even further because I didn't understand "acting" fully. I thought it was actually that to be a "doctor actor", you basically just trained to be both and then they followed you around with a camera while you actually did all of those things. So everyone in a show/movie was actually their profession or something close to it.
Deaths were different for me tho. I thought that as an actor, you decided when you died by taking said part. So it was up to each actor to choose the best death scene for themselves because it would be the only one they got. Better actors got offered better deaths while lesser actors only got to die as henchmen and whatnot. There was a whole life insurance/payout idea that played into all of this. But basically I thought actors fought for the prestige of dying on camera in the coolest ways possible.
I didn't think that they fought for death scenes, but yes. I had a similar thought. Essentially, they were gonna be killed by the Justice system and had to pick how they'd die.
I had similar thoughts to your first point, but I didn't understand "acting." So I just thought that a movie doctor was just a doctor who was hired for the movie. When my parents explained that "they're just pretending," I understood that not every doctor wanted to be in a movie, so some people had to pretend to fill in the gaps.
Yeah, I basically assumed that if you died as a henchman or something, you had a really bad agent or people just didn't like you. Only the A-list actors got to have their big moment dying. But I did believe that the payout was enough to take care of your surviving family, which is why people did it. Kinda some weird ass hunger games type idea way before the books ever existed lol
Henchmen who got shot were like a special class of stunt double in my mind. They were paid to get shot and then have surgery and recover just to do it again in another movie. I did think they had a limit to how many "lethal" stunts they could do before they had to retire or go out on one last insane stunt.
I always wanted to be an actor so I could be a sci-fi actor and get to go to space. I thought those were the luckiest people.
I thought shows were actually filmed in the places where they take place
Same! That's why I wanted to be a sci-fi actor 😂
Oh, and time skips were real! When you saw a flashback or something, that was actually filmed years ago and then they waited until the actors got older and filmed the rest. I assumed there were crazy logistical hurdles to get this to work but it was all real.
Imagine how long it would have taken to film This Is Us