fandomhigh | How to Be a Really Famous Actor (And Other Acting Tips), Friday, Period 1

When everyone was in the darkened classroom today, Lucas hit the play button on a remote control.

On a TV screen was Lucas, laying down and looking sad as an attractive young woman held his hands. "It's time, Isabella. I've held on for as long as I can but... *cough* I just don't have the strength anymore."

"Oh, Jayden," the attractive blonde said. "These last few weeks.... I never felt I could love again after the cancer set in. But you showed me... I don't have to be afraid to love anymore."

"Every moment you have left here on Earth should be filled with love," 'Jayden' said. "It's what I did. And trust me, Isabella.... *cough* it's been pretty great."

"I know," 'Isabella' said before starting to cry. "I was there with you."

"*cough* One last time, Isabella... kiss me... I'm dying..."

Isabella leaned down to give Jayden one final kiss before he gently succumbed to whatever fatal illness it was that he was suffering from. Probably cancer. When Isabella lifted her head, tears streaming down her face, she said, "I'll love you until the day I die. And when I do, let's hope there's a Heaven so we can be together again."

Lucas hit the stop button and turned the lights back on. "It's okay to cry. I know, it's very emotional," Lucas said, wiping away a single manly tear from his manly face. "So that's what you're doing today; dying. And take it from a guy who actually died recently, you don't get to go out with an emotional scene in real life, so make this one count."

"I went ahead and put a bunch of causes of death in a hat and pulled them out for each of you. Figure out how you want to play out your death from that cause, then come up here and start pretending to die already and give your final little speech. And don't worry, nobody expects you do be as good as I was in Let's Hope There's a Heaven. You're not professionals."

And then he handed out the slips of paper telling everyone what they were dying of.

Ariel: Brain fever
Calvin: Piano falling on you
Caroline Forbes: Gunshot
Kate Gregson: Flower pot
Nathan Young: Eaten by a duck
Peter Bishop: Extreme case of embarrassment
Quinn Fabray: Angry mob with pitchforks
Ramona Flowers: Iocane powder poisoning
Robin: Ruptured spleen

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Dead or dying.

First watch the movie clip. Then listen to Lucas tell you that you're going to die today. Niiiiice.

You have your death. Take whatever liberties you need to in order to die from that. And then give your dramatic death scene or monologue.

Who hasn't died!

Who has!

The death scene from Let's Hope There's a Heaven may be one of my favorite things I've ever written.

Also, come on, OF COURSE there needs to be a Nicholas Sparks style movie where BOTH PEOPLE die from cancer. Feel free to reference these characters and their cancer if you ever want to use LHTAH for a post.

Calvin

Nathan Young

Nathan didn't think the movie clip was that good but he was a little hungover and a lot unfocused. The sunglasses covering his eyes and the coffee on his desk probably gave that away.

He felt like he could die today. Man, he needed a break this weekend.

Nathan had to die via duck. Riiiight. It was fitting, he guessed, that he'd go out in some really fucking comical way. Maybe he could imagine it was some giant, toxic fueled duck with sharp teeth and an attitude. That'd make it a little more respectable.

So, he mimed holding a gun and started in on his death scene. "Look, you big...giant toxic wasted fueled duck. You might have eaten all my friends and all of my friends friends. You might have decimated the town but you are not going to go any further. Cuz, you see, I am going to eat this grenade!"

Yes, his fake grenade. "And then I am going to let you eat me. Kamikaze, motherfucker, that's what's gonna happen right now. I have no regrets! I loved a lot, I was loved and I am gonna leave duck guts all over the place!"

So yep, he mimed eating a grenade and then threw himself forward, into the imaginary duck before making sounds of explosions and miming guts and stuff getting tossed far and wide. Nathan ended up on the floor on his back, dead by duck.

Kate Gregson

God, that movie clip was fucking terrible.

And Kate wasn't much more into the task at hand today, either, even if she got something as ridiculous as a flower pot. Dying wasn't quite her thing.

Quinn Fabray

"Stop," Quinn said dramatically. This was feeding into any delusions of persecution she had ever had; in her mind, the mob was chasing her because she was far, far more awesome than they could ever be.

She dropped to her knees. "Jesus, forgive them for they know not what they do," she quoted, then turned her eyes to the mob. "Now. Do your worst. You know I will prevail in the end. My death will lead others to triumph!"

And then there was some coughing as she went into her death rattle. Otherwise, she was going to start to laugh.

Robin

What's a spleen?

Caroline Forbes

Oh wow, did Caroline think that was a sappy movie she would totally love to see in its entirety! Nicholas Sparks was amazing, okay? Of course, she totally didn't want to pretend to die. It wasn't like she could from most things, after all.

"Pretty badass," Lucas said. "If I was watching a Syfy movie about a duck and it ended like that, I wouldn't complain too much. Good job."

"Very Space Battles, but, you know, Christian," Lucas said. "Not bad."

Ramona Flowers

Ramona was definitely not dead and also she was here the whole time for reals.

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