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I once actually thought that when movies and shows were developing, I thought that they were being made within the year of their release date. I didn't know that these projects were sometimes done in advance or took years to make.

That when 'Commercial Breaks' happened during shows, I thought they meant that the actors needed a break before resuming. Not realizing that episodes are already made and commercials just interrupt things to just sell you shit.

When I learned food and drinks were energy for your body, I actually thought that when I got sleepy or tired, I just needed to drink or eat something. Not realizing that it wouldn't have mattered.

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[–] fishos@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.