‘Stranger Thgs’ Star Noah Schnapp Confirms Both He and His Character Are Gay | Vany Fair

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• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
• STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY
• 'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'
• STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY: 'GUS I'M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT'
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP, 18, OUT AS GAY
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’
• STRANGER THGS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY
• STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS BOTH HE AND HIS CHARACTER ARE GAY“I GUS I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT,” HE PTNED A RECENT TIKTOK. BY SAVANNAH WALSHJANUARY 6, 2023KRISTY SPAROWSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVELIFE AND ART ARE ALCG FOR STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP, WHO HAS OFFICIALLY E OUT AS GAY SIX MONTHS AFTER NFIRMG HIS CHARACTER WILL’S SEXUALY. “I GUS I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT,” HE PTNED A TIKTOK VIO RELEASED ON THURSDAY, WHICH READ: “WHEN I FALLY TOLD MY IENDS AND FAY I WAS GAY AFTER BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS AND ALL THEY SAID WAS ‘WE KNOW.’” SCHNAPP WAS LIP-SYNCG TO D OF SOMEONE SAYG, “YOU KNOW WHAT NEVER WAS? THAT SER. IT WAS NEVER THAT SER. QUE ANKLY, WILL NEVER BE THAT SER.”SCHNAPP, WHO IS CURRENTLY A HMAN STUDYG BS AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ADDRSED HIS CHARACTER’S SEXUALY FOR THE FIRST TIME OVER THE SUMMER. “IT WAS ALWAYS KD OF THERE, BUT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW, IS JT HIM GROWG UP SLOWER THAN HIS IENDS?” SCHNAPP SAID OF WILL’S LACK OF ROMANTIC STORY LE TO VARIETY. “NOW THAT HE’S GOTTEN OLR, THEY MA A VERY REAL, OBV THG. NOW ’S 100% CLEAR THAT HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE [HIS BT IEND, PLAYED BY FN WOLFHARD]. BUT BEFORE, WAS A SLOW ARC. I THK IS DONE SO BETIFULLY, BEE ’S SO EASY TO MAKE A CHARACTER JT LIKE ALL OF A SUDN BE GAY.”PRR TO STRANGER THGS’ FOURTH SEASON, SCHNAPP HAD DODGED QUTNS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WILL WAS GAY, SISTG THAT WAS “UP TO THE DIENCE’S TERPRETATN.” BUT THAT WAS ALL PART OF SHIELDG THE NETFLIX SHOW’S ULTIMATE REVEAL, THE ACTOR EXPLAED. “I MEAN, ’S PRETTY CLEAR THIS SEASON THAT WILL HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE. THEY’VE BEEN TENTNALLY PULLG THAT OUT OVER THE PAST FEW SEASONS,” HE TOLD VARIETY. “EVEN SEASON ONE, THEY HTED AT THAT AND SLOWLY, SLOWLY GREW THAT STORYLE. I THK FOR SEASON FOUR, WAS JT ME PLAYG THIS CHARACTER WHO LOV HIS BT IEND BUT STGGL WH KNOWG IF HE’LL BE ACCEPTED OR NOT, AND FEELG LIKE A MISTAKE AND LIKE HE DON’T BELONG. WILL HAS ALWAYS FELT LIKE THAT.”IN STRANGER THGS’ UPG FAL SEASON, SCHNAPP SAID THAT CREATORS THE DUFFER BROTHERS ARE PLANNG TO “FOC MORE ON WILL,” AND THAT HE’S HOPG FOR A PROPER “G-OUT SCENE” FOR HIS CHARACTER.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRACHEL LEVISS SEEMGLY QUS VANRPUMP RUL WH HELP FROM BETHENNY FRANKELBY SAVANNAH WALSHPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANSAVANNAH WALSH
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5, AND WILL’S SEXUALY: ‘HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’ (EXCLUSIVE)
• STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP NFIRMS THE OBV ABOUT WILL: 'HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE'
• IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED
• IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S UP TO "INTERPRETATN"
• STRANGER THGS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY IN SWEET TIKTOK VIO
• NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER

Noah Schnapp is lettg the world know that his “Stranger Thgs” character, Will Byers, is gay. Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” he said Variety’s latt story.

I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay. Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.”Schnapp said that Will’s “jealoy” over Mike’s relatnship wh Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) propels him to tearfully speak up.

STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY

"Noah Schnapp, the actor who plays Will Byers Stranger Thgs, has officially e out as gay. ""When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know, '" the ptn acpanyg the TikTok for the vio self, which you n view here, Schnapp is lip-syncg to an d clip of someone else sayg, "you know what never was?

"Around the release of Stranger Thgs Season 4 2022, Schnapp nfirmed that Will was gay and that the hts were there even the first season. Now ’s 100% clear he is gay and do love Mike, ” Schnapp said. The 18-year-old Stranger Thgs star me out as gay a TikTok vio on Thursday.

Over the vio, Schnapp wrote, "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know'". Over the show's four seasons, fans have repeatedly qutned whether Will was gay, wh some even cricizg the seri for not explicly statg the seemgly obv sooner.

'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'

Now 's 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

" He later had a heart-to-heart wh his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) where Jonathan appeared to offer his support of Will, whout ever sayg the words, "I know you're gay and I'm here.

STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY: 'GUS I'M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT'

"I thk is done so betifully, bee 's so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay. Schnapp also spoke about playg a gay character at such a young age while real life, also handlg his own personal growth and self-inty. Stranger Thgs star Noah Schnapp out as gay: 'Gus I'm more siar to Will than I thought' The actor opened up a TikTok vio referencg his beloved TV alter ego.

The 18-year-old actor, bt known for playg the closeted gay teenager Will Byers on Netflix's h sci-fi seri Stranger Thgs, me out as gay a TikTok vio posted Thursday. " In text atop the vio, Shapp wrote, "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know. The sexual orientatn of Schnapp's TV alter ego has been the subject of much discsn among Stranger Thgs fans over the years, and Schnapp nfirmed last summer that Will is gay and love wh his bt iend Mike (Fn Wolfhard).

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP, 18, OUT AS GAY

Now 's 100 percent clear that he is gay and he do love Mike. "If 's Will kd of jt refg to grow up and growg up slower than his iends, or if he is really gay. " The actor who plays Will, Noah Schnapp, has now nfirmed to Variety that the character is ed gay.

I thk is done so betifully, bee 's so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay. In any se, the actor has now spoken out about and nfirmed that the character he plays is ed gay - so there's no more room for doubt.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’

Related: Stranger Thgs' Maya Hawke sts doubt on girliend storyle season 5In his origal g-out msage, the actor wrote: "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was, 'We know', " over a vio of him mimg to a meme. "I gus I'm more siar to Will than I thought, " he add the reference lks to the fact that Will is gay, though Stranger Thgs has faced some cricism for not makg the character fively e out on McIntyre//Getty ImagRelated: Stranger Thgs' Fn Wolfhard shar reactn to Noah Schnapp's g out vioSchnapp said earlier this year that the show's upg fal season will give fans closure wh Will, tellg Forb: "I n jt tell you that I'm very very exced for what's to e. “It’s a w for the gays”.

’s a w for the gays. A third wrote: “Stranger thgs havg an official gay character mak me so happy fally some good f**kg reprentatn! Is Will Byers gay Stranger Thgs?

STRANGER THGS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY

“Will Byers really ptur the gay teen experience, ” one Twter er claims. “Stranger Thgs” star Noah Schnapp is gay. “When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know, '” he wrote atop the selfie-style clip.

STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS BOTH HE AND HIS CHARACTER ARE GAY“I GUS I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT,” HE PTNED A RECENT TIKTOK. BY SAVANNAH WALSHJANUARY 6, 2023KRISTY SPAROWSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVELIFE AND ART ARE ALCG FOR STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP, WHO HAS OFFICIALLY E OUT AS GAY SIX MONTHS AFTER NFIRMG HIS CHARACTER WILL’S SEXUALY. “I GUS I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT,” HE PTNED A TIKTOK VIO RELEASED ON THURSDAY, WHICH READ: “WHEN I FALLY TOLD MY IENDS AND FAY I WAS GAY AFTER BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS AND ALL THEY SAID WAS ‘WE KNOW.’” SCHNAPP WAS LIP-SYNCG TO D OF SOMEONE SAYG, “YOU KNOW WHAT NEVER WAS? THAT SER. IT WAS NEVER THAT SER. QUE ANKLY, WILL NEVER BE THAT SER.”SCHNAPP, WHO IS CURRENTLY A HMAN STUDYG BS AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ADDRSED HIS CHARACTER’S SEXUALY FOR THE FIRST TIME OVER THE SUMMER. “IT WAS ALWAYS KD OF THERE, BUT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW, IS JT HIM GROWG UP SLOWER THAN HIS IENDS?” SCHNAPP SAID OF WILL’S LACK OF ROMANTIC STORY LE TO VARIETY. “NOW THAT HE’S GOTTEN OLR, THEY MA A VERY REAL, OBV THG. NOW ’S 100% CLEAR THAT HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE [HIS BT IEND, PLAYED BY FN WOLFHARD]. BUT BEFORE, WAS A SLOW ARC. I THK IS DONE SO BETIFULLY, BEE ’S SO EASY TO MAKE A CHARACTER JT LIKE ALL OF A SUDN BE GAY.”PRR TO STRANGER THGS’ FOURTH SEASON, SCHNAPP HAD DODGED QUTNS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WILL WAS GAY, SISTG THAT WAS “UP TO THE DIENCE’S TERPRETATN.” BUT THAT WAS ALL PART OF SHIELDG THE NETFLIX SHOW’S ULTIMATE REVEAL, THE ACTOR EXPLAED. “I MEAN, ’S PRETTY CLEAR THIS SEASON THAT WILL HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE. THEY’VE BEEN TENTNALLY PULLG THAT OUT OVER THE PAST FEW SEASONS,” HE TOLD VARIETY. “EVEN SEASON ONE, THEY HTED AT THAT AND SLOWLY, SLOWLY GREW THAT STORYLE. I THK FOR SEASON FOUR, WAS JT ME PLAYG THIS CHARACTER WHO LOV HIS BT IEND BUT STGGL WH KNOWG IF HE’LL BE ACCEPTED OR NOT, AND FEELG LIKE A MISTAKE AND LIKE HE DON’T BELONG. WILL HAS ALWAYS FELT LIKE THAT.”IN STRANGER THGS’ UPG FAL SEASON, SCHNAPP SAID THAT CREATORS THE DUFFER BROTHERS ARE PLANNG TO “FOC MORE ON WILL,” AND THAT HE’S HOPG FOR A PROPER “G-OUT SCENE” FOR HIS CHARACTER.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRACHEL LEVISS SEEMGLY QUS VANRPUMP RUL WH HELP FROM BETHENNY FRANKELBY SAVANNAH WALSHPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANSAVANNAH WALSH

Viewers prevly speculated that Schnapp’s character was a member of the LGBTQIA+ muny, which the teen nfirmed July 2022 when he told Variety, “He is gay, and he do love Mike.

Sign up today for our ee To TopCelebsStranger Thgs Actor Noah Schnapp Com Out As GayNoah Schnapp, bt known for playg Will Byers on Stranger Thgs, has e out as Thursday, January 5, the actor shared a new TikTok vio dubbg over the trendy "You know what never was? That ser" d wrote over the vio:"When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know.

Durg the fourth season of Stranger Thgs - which was released on Netflix last year - the character of Will stggled wh g out as gay.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5, AND WILL’S SEXUALY: ‘HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Noah Schnapp, who plays the closeted gay teenager Will Byers on Netflix’s “Stranger Thgs, ” has e out as gay. In a vio posted to his TikTok acunt on Thursday, the 18-year-old actor wrote, “When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know'” — over Schnapp lip-syncg to an d clip om a different TikTok of someone sayg, “You know what never was?

In July, followg the but of the fal two episos of the fourth season of “Stranger Thgs, ” Schnapp nfirmed to Variety for the first time that Will Byers is gay and love wh his bt iend Mike (Fn Wolfhard).

STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP NFIRMS THE OBV ABOUT WILL: 'HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE'

“I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay, ” Schnapp said. (urty: noahschnapp)New Delhi: Actor Noah Schnapp, who is bt-known for playg Will Byers on the Netflix show Stranger Thgs, has e out as gay.

In a vio posted to his TikTok acunt, the actor wrote, "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was we know. Now 's 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, " he told Schnapp, bt known for starrg Stranger Thgs, has also featured a uple of films, cludg Steven Spielberg's historil drama Bridge of Spi (2015) and he also dubbed for Charlie Brown's character the animated The Peanuts Movie the same year. Stranger Thgs' Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) was at the center of the Netflix mystery when he disappeared to the Upsi Down, but fans and crics have placed the character another one: if the young character is supposed to be read as Advote's Daniel Reynolds wrote a popular say drawg the parallels between characters beg dragged to the "Upsi Down" and gay youth left trapped the closet, cut off (wh potentially fatal rults) om their muny.

IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED

"For me, Will beg gay or not is bis the pot, " he wrote his post. Life and art are alcg for Stranger Thgs star Noah Schnapp, who has officially e out as gay six months after nfirmg his character Will’s sexualy. “I gus I’m more siar to Will than I thought, ” he ptned a TikTok vio released on Thursday, which read: “When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know.

Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike [his bt iend, played by Fn Wolfhard].

”Prr to Stranger Thgs’ fourth season, Schnapp had dodged qutns about whether or not Will was gay, sistg that was “up to the dience’s terpretatn.

IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S UP TO "INTERPRETATN"

From the start, seemed clear that Will is gay and terrified of g out. Then there’s the follow up scene between Will and his olr brother Jonathan, when Jonathan munit to Will, basilly, I know you’re gay and I’m always here for you — whout ever g those words.

As you allud to earlier, the implitn that people perceive Will as gay is baked to the very first episo of the show. Did feel like was a spoiler to say outright, “Y, Will is wrtlg wh beg gay and g out”?

STRANGER THGS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY IN SWEET TIKTOK VIO

Stranger Thgs star Noah Schnapp nfirms the obv about Will: 'He is gay and he do love Mike' We fally get a straight answer... " Schnapp himself has played y the past and even suggted that Will wasn't gay, which mak wonr at what pot the wrers fively ma this character choice. "I thk is done so betifully, bee 's so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay, " Schnapp tells Variety.

NetflixWhen an early trailer for season four dropped, eagle-eyed fans noticed that Will was dog a school project on Alan Turg, the English mathematician who was chemilly strated for beg gay the 1950s. So far, so gay, and now that season four is actually here, there are plenty more hts that fans were right when they dubbed him Will Bi-ers.

A classic gay move, we're sure you'll agree, but there are also hts that Will might have done this bee his heart actually belongs to another girl — Eleven.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

"Will, beg the msy gay he is might be, mak Mike's drama all about himself, and what we prume are his feelgs for Mike.