Will gay confirmed

I was used to acting him [dealing] with the Mind Flayer, the supernatural aspects and the darker, kind of non-personal stuff. In Season 2, they were best friends and they were so close, and then obviously Mike has all his eyes on Eleven. Noah Schnapp is setting the record straight about the sexuality of his Stranger Things' character, Will Byers.

What did you understand about what that personal journey would look like, what Will was going to be contending with? Popular on Variety. The shot of you crying through the van window has even become a meme. Noah Schnapp, the actor who plays Will Byers in Stranger Things, has officially come out as gay.

I had to explore him navigating his personal identity issues and struggling with growing up and assimilating into high school. The day was a lot of fun. By Adam B. Senior Entertainment Writer. That is perhaps especially true of its youngest original member, Noah Schnapp. What do you remember about shooting it?

All his friends, they all have girlfriends and they all fit into their different clubs. From the start, it seemed clear that Will is gay and terrified of coming out. I remember it was just all day. Will is dealing with a little bit of jealousy there. His character, Will Byers, has been through it over the years: Abducted into the Upside Down, then possessed by a demonic entity known as the Mind Flayer, and then — perhaps worst of all!

This season was a new thing for me. Now, though, in an interview with Variety, Schnapp not only confirmed that Will is gay, bu that he is definitely in love with Mike. This was kind of a different season for him. Have you seen that? Will has never really found anywhere to fit in.

I love just playing with Will. A lot of fans feel like Mike has been a pretty terrible friend to Will over the last couple of seasons. Schnapp took to TikTok to share the news with the world, confirming that he recently told his. Just that little turn told you so much. Will never has, and throughout the recently concluded fourth season, he struggled to articulate to his best friend, Mike Wheeler Finn Wolfhard , why.

Even in Season 1, they hinted at that and slowly, slowly grew that storyline. Stranger Things ’ Noah Schnapp Confirms Will Is “Gay and Does Love Mike” In a new interview, the actor also teased a season five coming-out scene and apologized to Doja Cat for sharing their.

We started in the morning and went straight through, past lunch, for hours and hours. How do you feel about that relationship? The conversation that Will and Mike have in the van, where Will is essentially telling Mike how he feels about him, but through the prism of Eleven — that was so heartbreaking.

I remember when I was doing the scene, I was bawling, like, going all out the whole day. And when I saw it on screen, it was actually more subtle. It was new for me. Will has always felt like that. I liked how they edited it together.