WARNING, spoilers ahead: After Stranger Things 4 had its monster two-episode finale on Friday, the show’s writers took to Twitter to reveal three moments from that finale that weren’t in the script.
At one point, Winona Ryder’s Joyce sends Hopper to David Harbour, who is about to fight the Demogorgon from prison. She asks him to be careful in his task, noting that she does not want to arrange a second funeral for him. At this point, they share a tender kiss.
“This kiss was not scripted,” said a tweet from the Stranger Things writers’ account. “Winona and David added it on the day of the shoot.”
This kiss is not scripted, Winona and David added it on the day of filming pic.twitter.com/9vSWwYliWU
— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) July 2, 2022
Another post revealed that the moment between Eddie (played by Joseph Quinn) saying “I love you man” to Dustin (played by Gaten Matarazzo) was also not planned.
“‘I Love You Man’ was improvised by Joe,” the writers revealed.
“I love you man” was improvised by Joe pic.twitter.com/z5gYyl18KF
— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) July 2, 2022
And finally, the moment when Lucas – while being beaten by Jason – pleads, “Erica, help” was improvised by the actor himself, Caleb McLaughlin.
“Erika, help” was improvised by Caleb. pic.twitter.com/9g5etO5VAz
— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) July 2, 2022
That kind of collaboration isn’t uncommon on the set of the Matt and Ross Duffer-created show, according to Sadie Sink — who plays Max — even with the younger cast members. She described her experience to Deadline this week.
“What all the kids love about the Duffers is that they’ve never treated us any differently than an adult cast member,” Sink said. “They really respected and valued our opinions and created a really fun environment. They never undermined us in any way and really just listened to us and cooperated with us.”
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