I’m Not Really Sure How Script-writing Works. Do Writers Leave Certain Reactions From Characters Out

I’m not really sure how script-writing works. Do writers leave certain reactions from characters out of the script in order to maintain mystery? Like on the script we don’t get to see much of Bellamy’s feelings/thoughts while walking towards Clarke since it’s mostly in her POV, but from Bob’s acting we can tell he’s really emotional. For scenes like that, when certain feelings aren’t yet canon, do writers purposely leave out any potential hints to them and tell the actors how to act it out?

Well, I’m not a script writer either, but I’ve been around a lot of actors, and I’ve studied it a little bit. The thing about plays or tv or movies? They’re a collaborative art.

As a novelist, I write the whole thing and then the reader finishes the story in their brain.

With a screen play. The writer writes the  basic scaffolding, the dialogue and the stage directions, then the director figures out the direction to go, then the actor adds in their humanity and artistry, the costumers and set designers create the world the characters go through, the cinematographer captures the best images to tell the story, the editor cuts it and puts it together to sculpt the story, the composer adds the music to give emotion to it all,

So. what you see is all those people working together to tell the story. Each artist puts their touch to create this larger world, and ALL of them contribute to the thoughts and feelings you have when you watch.

We see the actors faces and hear the writer’s words, but it all goes into it. If there’s something that they want the actors to act towards, I’m sure the show runner or director will talk to them about it. But there’s been a lot of emotion that we’ve seen on screen already, and the actors are building on all those character choices they’ve already made. For all we know, Bob’s already gotten the direction that Bellamy’s in love with Clarke. It didn’t have to be in that scene. It could have been another, or not in the stage directions at all, but spoken to him by JR or another director. The scripts aren’t for us at all. They are behind the scenes.