'Stranger Thgs' Star Noah Schnapp Com Out as Gay - Variety

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• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’
• IS WILL BYERS STRANGER THGS GAY? WE MIGHT BE ASKG THE WRONG QUTN
• STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY NEW TIKTOK VIO

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

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. 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).

“I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay, ” Schnapp said. I thk that’s the bety of , that ’s jt up to the dience’s terpretatn — if ’s Will kd of jt refg to grow up and growg up slower than his iends, or if he is really gay.” Roy Rochl / Getty ImagMillie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven, add, “Can I jt say, ’s 2022 and we don’t have to label thgs. Ever sce the last two episos of the fourth season of the h Netflix show Stranger Thgs were released last Friday, a sectn of the ter has been abuzz wh qutns on whether the character of Will Byers, played by Noah Schnapp, is gay.

IS WILL BYERS STRANGER THGS GAY? WE MIGHT BE ASKG THE WRONG QUTN

” Mike remarked, one of the prev episos when Will was growg apprehensive of Mike’s growg closens wh Eleven; the trailer of the fourth season, Will was seen workg on a project on the famo mathematician, Alan Turg, who was chemilly strated for beg gay the 1950s; Will mov his leg away when a random girl wants to play the recent episo of Stranger Thgs, thgs were more or ls spelt out clearly when Will was explag to Mike why Eleven always feels like the odd person out. It don’t matter if he is gay or not, but his iendship wh Mike tells a lot about how we form early nnectns, and how we learn to stifle and manage our expectatns om even our seemgly close iends bee they fd too suffotg. Schnapp agreed as much a recent terview when he was asked if his character Stranger Thgs is gay: “He kd of jt terprets like he's not ready to grow up and he don't really want to move on to datg and relatnships yet.

Noah Schnapp, one of the young stars of Stranger Thgs has e out as gay. It was never that ser” while addg on-screen text that reads, “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.

STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY NEW TIKTOK VIO

Last July, Schnapp nfirmed to Variety that his character is gay, and that Will has feelgs for Mike Wheeler, who is played by Fn Wolfhard. Now ’s 100 [percent] clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” he told Variety.

I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.