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Stranger Things' Noah Schnapp confirms Will is gay, scared of coming out: 'He does love Mike'
Published on: Jul 15, am IST
Stranger Things season 4 featured a tearful scene between Will Byers and Mike Wheeler. Noah Schnapp has now confirmed that Will is gay and in love with Mike.
Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has finally confirmed that his character Will Byers is gay on the show. Noah had previously said that Will's sexuality was open to the audience's meaning, but that was before the discharge of volume 2 of season 4, which featured an emotional scene between Will and Mike. Noah has now said that it was very dispel in the recently released season that Will is, in fact, gay. Also Read| Stranger Things season 4 finale: An almost-perfect, coolest season ending
Noah confirmed that Will is in love with his best companion Mike Wheeler, played by Finn Wolfhard, but doesn't need to hurt Eleven's feelings by confessing it. Noah also said that he is hoping for Will to contain a coming-out scene in the fifth and last season of the Netflix show.
In a recent interview with
Noah Schnapp&#;s Coming Out Journey: The &#;Stranger Things&#; Luminary &#;Would Still Be Closeted&#; if Not for Will Byers Being Gay
Noah Schnapp was stuck in his drafts. The year-old performer, who’d become a domestic name on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” kept putting off posting a video he’d shot on his mobile — an announcement he’d been contemplating making for a few months. His closest friends kept texting him: When are you going to post it? I want to notice the world’s reaction! Schnapp kept replying: No, I’m not ready. I’m not ready. I’m not ready.
But on Jan. 5, after his family dropped off his twin sister, Chloe, at college in Boston, he felt ready. As they started the hourslong drive back to their home in Westchester, N.Y., he posted the eight-second video to more than 31 million followers on TikTok.
At first glance, it looked like other clips he’s made messing around with friends (including &#;Stranger Things&#; BFF Millie Bobby Brown): Schnapp, his head on a pillow, lip-syncing to a popular audio c
Stranger Things: Will Byers Actor Noah Schnapp Comes Out as Gay
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Noah Schnapp, the actor who plays Will Byers in Stranger Things, has officially come out as gay.
Schnapp took to TikTok to share the news with the world, confirming that he recently told his family and friends and that he was "more similar to Will than I thought."
"When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after being scared in the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know,'" the caption accompanying the TikTok reads.
As for the video itself, which you can view here, Schnapp is lip-syncing to an audio clip of someone else saying, "you know what it never was? That serious. It was never that serious. Quite frankly, will never be that serious."
Around the release of Stranger Things Season 4 in , Schnapp confirmed that Will was gay and that the hints were there even in the first season.
"It was hinted at in Season 1. It was always kind of there,
8 Times Stranger Things Hinted At Will Being Same-sex attracted (& You Totally Missed It)
Stranger Things fans finally know that Will Byers is gay, but there were signs throughout the series pointing toward this. There has been speculation about Will’s sexuality, and even more so in season 4. While the Duffer Brothers wouldn’t verify one way or another, Noah Schnapp did corroborate “he is gay, and he does love Mike” in July (via Variety). He also said it was a “slow arc” before season 4.
It was indeed a slow arc before Stranger Things season 4. There were things here and there that hinted at Will existence gay, but it was easy to overlook them because they’re kids. Also, there was a lot of more pressing things going on each season. It wasn’t front and center in the way it was in season 4. In addition, Will is in high university in season 4, so it makes sense that he will be realizing his sexuality more than he was in middle school. Here are eight hints that Stranger Things gave viewers that Will was gay.