Are they especially given eye drops to keep their eyes open whilst ''dead''? Maybe they try as long as possible until they blink, then the editors cut.
And in those scenes, in order not to breathe, do the actors relax and take deep breaths for a while before?
Were there any actors who couldn't even do 'death' scenes?
This is something a lot of actors have talked about, and ye, they just play dead. It's really not that difficult in a vacuum, but it becomes hard when there's a whole scene happening around them. I like Jack Gleeson's (Joffrey) anectode a lot about how hard his death scene was to do. Can't find the interview, but basically he had trouble keeping his eyes open with all the practical effects on his face so his eyes had to be held open by someone who's hands were then removed in post
shareJackie's eyelids must have been sore after?
shareOftentimes, you can see their eyelids twitch. But who cares really?
shareNowadays they can just manipulate the video so that it basically freeze-frames the person and they add the rest of the scene around them, so they look dead.
shareDepending on the cause of death, some twitching is normal after the person died.
For corpses (in a morgue for example) I guess they usually use props.
Now a days,cgi can be used.
But for practical purposes, they can be given contacts that keep air from drying out their eyes as fast, requiring fewer blinks. And before a scene they lay still and relax so their heart rate is at rest in order to breath slower and take shallow breaths. Other than that; commitment.