‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Moments That Weren’t Originally Meant to Air On Screen
usmagazine.comGoing off script! Viewers were in for a wild ride when Stranger Things season 4 ended with more questions than answers.After the dramatic conclusion premiered on Netflix in July 2022, the official Twitter account for the writers room offered a glimpse at the scenes that almost never made it to the screen.“‘I love you, man’ was improvised by Joe,” the account tweeted alongside a photo of Joseph Quinn and Gaten Matarazzo filming a conversation between their respective characters Eddie and Dustin.During the second installment of season 4, Eddie and Dustin worked together to distract the bats in the Upside Down while their friends faced off against Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower).
Following an epic guitar solo, Eddie decided to stay behind to buy the group more time and was fatally attacked by the monsters.For Quinn, getting to portray Eddie and Dustin’s friendship was a major highlight ahead of his character’s demise. “As men, it’s not always easy to show the complexities of different kinds of love, especially in your adolescence,” he told Esquire in July 2022. “There were always guys that were a bit older than me that I really kind of was enamored by.
And I also felt that with guys who are a bit younger than me, there’s this kind of patronage there. And we just wanted to kind of make it as visceral as possible.”The U.K.
native also praised the development Eddie went through before his death. “I had a feeling that we would finish his arc this season.
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