Is Will Byers from Stranger Things gay? Learn all there is to know as Noah Schnapp confirmed the sexuality of his character.
Noah Schnapp has recently come out. The 18-year-old actor, best known for playing the closeted gay teenager Will Byers on Netflix’s hit sci-fi series Stranger Things, came out as gay in a TikTok video posted earlier this year. “I guess I’m more similar to [Will] than I thought,” he wrote in the caption.
The video features Schnapp reclining and lip-syncing to audio saying, “You know what it never was? That serious. Quite frankly, it will never be that serious.” In text atop the video, Scnhapp wrote, “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.’” Representatives for Schnapp said the actor had no further comment at this time.
The sexual orientation of Schnapp’s TV alter ego has been the subject of much discussion among Stranger Things fans over the years, and Schnapp confirmed last summer that Will is gay and in love with his best friend Mike (Finn Wolfhard). That revelation came after seasons’ worth of teases and hints, like a season 3 episode in which Mike yelled at him, “It’s not my fault you don’t like girls!” following a heated Dungeons & Dragons session.
What else did Noah Schnapp have to say?
“Obviously, it was hinted at in season 1,” Schnapp told Variety in July, after the second volume of season 4 dropped.
“It was always kind of there, but you never really knew: is it just him growing up slower than his friends? Now that he’s gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing. Now it’s 100 percent clear that he is gay and he does love Mike. But before, it was a slow arc.”
Stranger Things director and executive producer Shawn Levy previously said that the season 3 scene wasn’t specific to sexual orientation, though he added, “There aren’t many accidents on Stranger Things. So if you came away from [season 4, volume 1] feeling those breadcrumbs of plot and character, it’s probably no accident.”
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