Stranger Thgs: Will Byers Actor Noah Schnapp Com Out as Gay - IGN

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• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
• STRANGER THGS’ NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL IS “GAY AND DO LOVE MIKE”IN A NEW TERVIEW, THE ACTOR ALSO TEASED A SEASON FIVE G-OUT SCENE AND APOLOGIZED TO DOJA CAT FOR SHARG THEIR DMS.BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULY 15, 2022COURTY OF NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONE OF THE LGERG QUTNS AT THE CENTER OF STRANGER THGS IS WHETHER WILL’S SEXUALY WILL BE ADDRSED ON THE SERI. VIEWERS (SORT OF) GOT AN ANSWER A PAIR OF EMOTNALLY CHARGED SCEN THE SHOW’S RECENTLY RELEASED FOURTH SEASON—ONE BETWEEN NOAH SCHNAPP’S CHARACTER AND HIS BROTHER JONATHAN (CHARLIE HEATON), AND THE OTHER BETWEEN WILL AND HIS BT IEND MIKE (FN WOLFHARD). WHILE BOTH ALLUD TO WILL’S NER SIR, NFIRMATN ABOUT WHAT THOSE SIR WERE HADN’T BEEN OFFERED UNTIL NOW.“IT WAS ALWAYS KD OF THERE, BUT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW, IS JT HIM GROWG UP SLOWER THAN HIS IENDS?” SCHNAPP SAID A NEW TERVIEW WH 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. 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.”SCHNAPP SAID THAT WILL’S “JEALOY” OVER MIKE’S RELATNSHIP WH ELEVEN (MILLIE BOBBY BROWN) PROPELS HIM TO TEARFULLY SPEAK UP. “SOMETIM WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT YOU FEEL LIKE A MISTAKE,” A CHOKED-UP WILL TELLS MIKE, WHO DON’T SEEM TO BE GRASPG THE WEIGHT OF WILL’S WORDS. “THIS SCENE WAS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR HIM, BEE REALLY SOLIDIFIED THAT TTH: THAT HE LOV HIS BT IEND AND HE DON’T KNOW HOW TO TELL HIM,” SCHNAPP SAID OF HIS CHARACTER.IN THE PAST, SCHNAPP HAS DODGED QUTNS ABOUT WILL’S SEXUALY, SAYG ONLY THAT WAS “UP TO THE DIENCE’S TERPRETATN.” THE ACTOR NOW NFIRMS THAT THIS WAS A WAY TO PROTECT THE SHOW’S SEASON FOUR REVEAL. “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,” SCHNAPP 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.”FN WOLFHARD AS MIKE WHEELER AND NOAH SCHNAPP AS WILL BYERS ‘STRANGER THGS.’COURTY OF NETFLIXTHE EMOTNAL TERACTN BETWEEN WILL AND JONATHAN, WHICH THE OLR BROTHER PROMIS THAT “THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NOTHG THIS WORLD THAT ULD CHANGE” THEIR BOND, WAS A KEY LAST-MUTE ADDN. “IT’S ALSO VERY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THAT WILL IS NOT ALONE—BEE ALL WE EVER SEE OF HIM IS STGGLG AND FEELG PRSED AND THAT HE N’T BE HIMSELF,” SCHNAPP EXPLAED. “JONATHAN IS TALKG TO HIM —’S JT THE PERFECT WAY TO TELL SOMEONE LIKE WILL THAT HE R ABOUT HIM AND HE ACCEPTS HIM NO MATTER WHAT. I THK WAS REALLY WHOLOME.”AS FOR THE FAL SEASON OF STRANGER THGS, SCHNAPP SAID THAT THE DUFFER BROTHERS ARE PLANNG TO “FOC MORE ON WILL,” AND THAT HE’S HOPG FOR A PROPER “G-OUT SCENE” FOR HIS CHARACTER.IN THE TERVIEW, SCHNAPP ALSO ADDRSED HIS MOR ONLE BEEF WH DOJA CAT, WHICH BEGAN AFTER THE 17-YEAR-OLD ACTOR SHARED PRIVATE MSAG THE RAPPER SENT HIM REGARDG HER ROMANTIC TERT HIS STRANGER THGS STAR JOSEPH QUN. AFTER THE MICIAN TOOK ISSUE WH SCHNAPP’S POSTG THEIR SCREENSHOTS, HE APOLOGIZED ON TIKTOK AND TOLD VARIETY THAT HE WAS “SUPER UNSER ON SOCIAL MEDIA.” SCHNAPP NTUED, “I POSTED THAT NOT THKG TOO MUCH OF , BUT OBVLY HURT HER FEELGS. SO, AS I SHOULD, I APOLOGIZED AND SHE WAS TOTALLY OKAY WH , AND WAS LIKE, ‘I’M SORRY HOW I REACTED.’ IT WAS ALL GOOD. I LOVE HER. I’M LIKE THE BIGGT FAN OF HER MIC, AND I TOLD HER THAT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHHOLLYWOOD ELE RH TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE THE STRIKE ENDSBY MARIE LODISAVANNAH WALSH
• NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY
• 'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'
• IS WILL BYERS GAY? STRANGER THGS CERTALY WANTS YOU TO THK SO
• STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL'S SEXUALY, HE IS GAY
• IS WILL BYERS GAY, BI, OR STRAIGHT? HIS SEXUALY EXPLAED
• NOAH SCHNAPP SAYS IT'S "100% CLEAR" HIS "STRANGER THGS" CHARACTER IS GAY
• STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY
• AFTER YEARS OF FANS SPECULATG THAT WILL BYERS IS GAY, HERE'S WHAT THE "STRANGER THGS" CAST AND CREATORS HAVE SAID ABOUT HIS SEXUALY THIS SEASON
• IS WILL BYERS GAY IN STRANGER THGS?
• WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY
• THE "STRANGER THGS"'S CREATORS MAY HAVE JT REVEALED WHETHER WILL BYERS IS GAY
• WILL BYERS IS GAY? HERE’S THE REAL DEAL
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
• DO WILL BYERS E OUT AS GAY STRANGER THGS 4? HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS TO MIKE VOLUME 2

‘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.

STRANGER THGS’ NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL IS “GAY AND DO LOVE MIKE”IN A NEW TERVIEW, THE ACTOR ALSO TEASED A SEASON FIVE G-OUT SCENE AND APOLOGIZED TO DOJA CAT FOR SHARG THEIR DMS.BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULY 15, 2022COURTY OF NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONE OF THE LGERG QUTNS AT THE CENTER OF STRANGER THGS IS WHETHER WILL’S SEXUALY WILL BE ADDRSED ON THE SERI. VIEWERS (SORT OF) GOT AN ANSWER A PAIR OF EMOTNALLY CHARGED SCEN THE SHOW’S RECENTLY RELEASED FOURTH SEASON—ONE BETWEEN NOAH SCHNAPP’S CHARACTER AND HIS BROTHER JONATHAN (CHARLIE HEATON), AND THE OTHER BETWEEN WILL AND HIS BT IEND MIKE (FN WOLFHARD). WHILE BOTH ALLUD TO WILL’S NER SIR, NFIRMATN ABOUT WHAT THOSE SIR WERE HADN’T BEEN OFFERED UNTIL NOW.“IT WAS ALWAYS KD OF THERE, BUT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW, IS JT HIM GROWG UP SLOWER THAN HIS IENDS?” SCHNAPP SAID A NEW TERVIEW WH 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. 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.”SCHNAPP SAID THAT WILL’S “JEALOY” OVER MIKE’S RELATNSHIP WH ELEVEN (MILLIE BOBBY BROWN) PROPELS HIM TO TEARFULLY SPEAK UP. “SOMETIM WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT YOU FEEL LIKE A MISTAKE,” A CHOKED-UP WILL TELLS MIKE, WHO DON’T SEEM TO BE GRASPG THE WEIGHT OF WILL’S WORDS. “THIS SCENE WAS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR HIM, BEE REALLY SOLIDIFIED THAT TTH: THAT HE LOV HIS BT IEND AND HE DON’T KNOW HOW TO TELL HIM,” SCHNAPP SAID OF HIS CHARACTER.IN THE PAST, SCHNAPP HAS DODGED QUTNS ABOUT WILL’S SEXUALY, SAYG ONLY THAT WAS “UP TO THE DIENCE’S TERPRETATN.” THE ACTOR NOW NFIRMS THAT THIS WAS A WAY TO PROTECT THE SHOW’S SEASON FOUR REVEAL. “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,” SCHNAPP 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.”FN WOLFHARD AS MIKE WHEELER AND NOAH SCHNAPP AS WILL BYERS ‘STRANGER THGS.’COURTY OF NETFLIXTHE EMOTNAL TERACTN BETWEEN WILL AND JONATHAN, WHICH THE OLR BROTHER PROMIS THAT “THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NOTHG THIS WORLD THAT ULD CHANGE” THEIR BOND, WAS A KEY LAST-MUTE ADDN. “IT’S ALSO VERY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THAT WILL IS NOT ALONE—BEE ALL WE EVER SEE OF HIM IS STGGLG AND FEELG PRSED AND THAT HE N’T BE HIMSELF,” SCHNAPP EXPLAED. “JONATHAN IS TALKG TO HIM —’S JT THE PERFECT WAY TO TELL SOMEONE LIKE WILL THAT HE R ABOUT HIM AND HE ACCEPTS HIM NO MATTER WHAT. I THK WAS REALLY WHOLOME.”AS FOR THE FAL SEASON OF STRANGER THGS, SCHNAPP SAID THAT THE DUFFER BROTHERS ARE PLANNG TO “FOC MORE ON WILL,” AND THAT HE’S HOPG FOR A PROPER “G-OUT SCENE” FOR HIS CHARACTER.IN THE TERVIEW, SCHNAPP ALSO ADDRSED HIS MOR ONLE BEEF WH DOJA CAT, WHICH BEGAN AFTER THE 17-YEAR-OLD ACTOR SHARED PRIVATE MSAG THE RAPPER SENT HIM REGARDG HER ROMANTIC TERT HIS STRANGER THGS STAR JOSEPH QUN. AFTER THE MICIAN TOOK ISSUE WH SCHNAPP’S POSTG THEIR SCREENSHOTS, HE APOLOGIZED ON TIKTOK AND TOLD VARIETY THAT HE WAS “SUPER UNSER ON SOCIAL MEDIA.” SCHNAPP NTUED, “I POSTED THAT NOT THKG TOO MUCH OF , BUT OBVLY HURT HER FEELGS. SO, AS I SHOULD, I APOLOGIZED AND SHE WAS TOTALLY OKAY WH , AND WAS LIKE, ‘I’M SORRY HOW I REACTED.’ IT WAS ALL GOOD. I LOVE HER. I’M LIKE THE BIGGT FAN OF HER MIC, AND I TOLD HER THAT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHHOLLYWOOD ELE RH TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE THE STRIKE ENDSBY MARIE LODISAVANNAH WALSH

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.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

Last May, when the first half of Stranger Thgs’ fourth season dropped, Noah Schnapp was vague when Variety asked if many viewers were rrect when they ferred that his character Will was gay: The actor said that Will’s sexualy was “up to the dience’s terpretatn.

” But now that the full season is out, and his feelgs for his bt iend, Mike (Fn Wolfhard), beme more overt, Schapp nfirmed Will’s homosexualy, tellg Variety that he had been ls straightforward earlier to prevent dolg out spoilers before thgs beme clear the new episos.

Now ’s 100 percent clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” Schnapp explaed.

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

The 18-year-old Stranger Thgs star me out as gay a TikTok vio on Thursday.

IS WILL BYERS GAY? STRANGER THGS CERTALY WANTS YOU TO THK SO

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

STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL'S SEXUALY, HE IS GAY

" 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. "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. The official Stranger Thgs show bible nfirms that Will Byers is actually gay the Netflix seri, which was first teased season 3. The Duffer brothers' origal not for Stranger Thgs nfirm season 3's subtle ht that Will uld be gay.

IS WILL BYERS GAY, BI, OR STRAIGHT? HIS SEXUALY EXPLAED

But viewers also noticed another le of dialogue  Stranger Thgs season 3, episo 3, that seemed to imply one of the show's actual stars may secretly be gay.

And the Stranger Thgs bible certaly supports the ia that Will is gay.

'" This is a nfg time for any teenager, but the 1980s homosexualy was the subject of a moral panic, a rult of the AIDS epimic.

NOAH SCHNAPP SAYS IT'S "100% CLEAR" HIS "STRANGER THGS" CHARACTER IS GAY

Is Will Byers gay? Update: Stranger Thgs Season 4 Fally Confirmed Whether Will Byers Is Gay, click to fd out the answer...

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

One of the biggt qutns Stranger Thgs ntu season 4 is, is Will Byers gay? In season 3, Rob told Steve (well, he had to figure out himself) that she's gay; was a terrific moment for both characters, and 's a story that plays out greater tail season 4.

AFTER YEARS OF FANS SPECULATG THAT WILL BYERS IS GAY, HERE'S WHAT THE "STRANGER THGS" CAST AND CREATORS HAVE SAID ABOUT HIS SEXUALY THIS SEASON

Now season 4 ntu that le of thought, nudgg viewers along to ask themselv, is Will Byers gay? How Stranger Thgs Teased Will Byers Beg Gay. Mike is Will's bt iend, so 's possible he knew somethg that viewers didn't, but the scene plays out specifilly a way to imply that Will Byers is gay.

Clu Will Byers Is Gay In Stranger Thgs Season 4. So far Stranger Thgs season 4, there have been addnal clu to Will Byers beg gay, but they've e om another character other than Will aga, save for one scene.

Many fans wonred if Will Byers was gay after Stranger Thgs Season 4: Volume Two; actg star Noah Schnapp nfirmed te. Throughout the seri, Will Byers, played by Stranger Thgs star, Noah Schnapp, hts at him beg homosexual.

IS WILL BYERS GAY IN STRANGER THGS?

Stranger Thgs Fan Theory: Is Will Byers Gay? To most, this scene between the two characters showed Will g out as gay Stranger Thgs.

WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY

However, sce there wasn’t any official reveal, some still speculate Schnapp Confirms Will Byers Is Gay In Stranger ThgsWill Byers has been hted at as homosexual the entire seri.

THE "STRANGER THGS"'S CREATORS MAY HAVE JT REVEALED WHETHER WILL BYERS IS GAY

(Picture: Netflix / Stranger Thgs)In an terview wh Variety, Will’s actor, Noah Schnapp, nfirmed that Will is ed gay Stranger Thgs and that he is also madly love wh Mike. After the actor spoke about how Will didn’t want to be alienated for g out as gay and losg his iends for , he mentned Mike’s velopment alongsi him as fans fd him to be a bad nstantly wants to relive the good old days; he remisc wh Mike when he and the crew would play Dungeons and Dragons together. ”There are more trite tails to unravel about Noah’s nfsn about Will, but the bottom le is that Will is gay Stranger Thgs.

Although the van scene proved already, Noah’s nfirmatn solidifi what most fans have already believed as officially g out as gay the seri pends on whether happens Stranger Thgs Season 5. So, is Will Byers gay, bi, or straight?

Will Byers is gay, the actor Noah Schnapp nfirmed as much his terview wh Variety referencg his close relatnship wh Mike.

WILL BYERS IS GAY? HERE’S THE REAL DEAL

There were hts throughout the entire season that uld pot to the possibily that Will uld be gay. This was probably the first ht that Will was ed gay and that he was jt simply stgglg wh his inty bee he was probably nfed about the thgs he felt ep wh himself.

As such, the creators of the show are probably throwg hts that Will uld be gay but are still wonrg whether or not he actually believed that he was gay. However, while Stranger Thgs has given out hts that Will uld be gay, Noah Schnapps went one step ahead and nfirmed Will’s sexualy his terview wh Variety. Of urse, Will beg gay isn’t the first gay person the seri.

'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'

As such, shouldn’t be somethg surprisg given the fact that gay people are now beg reprented all over televisn. Is Noah Schnapp Gay, bisexual or straight?

In a recent TikTok post that went viral, Noah Schnapp the actor that plays Will Byers Strange Thgs me out as gay.

DO WILL BYERS E OUT AS GAY STRANGER THGS 4? HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS TO MIKE VOLUME 2

“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, '”.

But some fans were still upset that the show didn't make absolutely explic that Will is gay. "Now 's 100% 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.