Let's unpack Will Byers' big emotnal moments 'Stranger Thgs' season 4, Volume 2, and what they mean for the fan theory that Noah Schnapp's character is g out as gay.
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- 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 FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH
- ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
- IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED
- 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
- IS WILL BYERS GAY? STRANGER THGS CERTALY WANTS YOU TO THK SO
- ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR SAYS ‘IT’S 100% CLEAR WILL IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’
- IS WILL OM ‘STRANGER THGS’ GAY?
- STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 PRODUCER ADDRS QUTN OF IF WILL IS GAY
- IS STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 HTG WILL IS GAY? PRODUCER SAYS 'THERE AREN'T MANY ACCINTS' ON SHOW
- IS WILL BYERS GAY, BI, OR STRAIGHT? HIS SEXUALY EXPLAED
- NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY
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 FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH
* will is gay stranger *
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. 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’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
Stranger Thgs season 4 star Fn Wolfhard spoke to Digal Spy about Will's "love" for Mike. But is Will Byers gay? Well, 's plited... * will is gay stranger *
That release never me, but there were a few more teas that strongly suggted he's gay. "For me, Will beg gay or not is bis the pot, " he wrote at the time on Instagram.
Do beg sensive, or a loner, or a teenager who lik photography, or a girl wh red hair and big glass, make you gay? "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. Stranger Thgs season 4, Volume 2 unfurled the answerIs Stranger Thgs season 4 htg Will is gay?
IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED
Is Will Byers gay? It's a qutn that's been raised sce Stranger Thgs season 2, and here's everythg season 4 teas about his sexual inty. * will is gay stranger *
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.
'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
Stranger Thgs season 4 producer, Shawn Levy, addrs the qutn of whether Will is gay, sayg, "there aren't many accints" on the seri. * will is gay stranger *
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. "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. "NetflixSounds sort of gay to , even if is a teensy b vague still.
Not only do Stranger Thgs – and the st – like to dance around the specifics of his inty, also seems as though Will's potential love for Mike won't end on a happy 's extremely relatable for teen gays to fall love wh their bt iend, Will's love for Mike, if is romantic, will go nowhere fast. Sce the first season of the Netflix seri, fans have speculated and theorized the possibily of Will beg gay. Stranger Thgs Season 4 further fuels the nversatn that Will might be gay.
A Stranger Thgs Twter acunt poted out, “Will’s school project is about Alan Turg, a Brish WWII hero and a Gay Man…”. But 1952, Turg was prosecuted for homosexual acts. I’m posive that he’s meant to be terpreted as gay, whether they make obv wh the show or not, ” said a fan on Redd.
IS WILL BYERS GAY? STRANGER THGS CERTALY WANTS YOU TO THK SO
'Stranger Thgs' producer and director Shawn Levy addrs theori that Will might be gay after THAT season 4 episo. * will is gay stranger *
This go tune wh Noah Schnapp’s ment to Variety, statg, “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. Over the urse of the show's four seasons, fan have qutned whether Will is gay, some even cricizg the Netflix seri for not explicly statg the seemgly obv sooner. 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 say 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. Is Will Byers gay?
‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR SAYS ‘IT’S 100% CLEAR WILL IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’
Update: Stranger Thgs Season 4 Fally Confirmed Whether Will Byers Is Gay, click to fd out the answer...
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.
IS WILL OM ‘STRANGER THGS’ GAY?
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.
STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 PRODUCER ADDRS QUTN OF IF WILL 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.
IS STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 HTG WILL IS GAY? PRODUCER SAYS 'THERE AREN'T MANY ACCINTS' ON SHOW
Stranger Thgs season 4 do not lerally have Will e out and say he’s gay, g those words, but over the urse of a season, we see him flch when a girl flirts wh him, we hear him pour out his feelgs for Mike actg like ’s jt how Eleven feels about him, and then has a nversatn wh his brother that is kd of him almost g out, but aga, not explicly. Namely, Will seems like he’s gay and stgglg to e imprsn has only grown stronger Season 4.
In the first episo, Will and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) have to give a prentatn their new California high school on a hero they look up to; Will choos Alan Turg, the gay mathematician who was prosecuted the 1950s for his sexualy and forced to unrgo chemil stratn. “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. So is Will gay?
IS WILL BYERS GAY, BI, OR STRAIGHT? HIS SEXUALY EXPLAED
Image via Netflix While has not yet been officially nfirmed Will is ed gay, there’s been a lot of subtle nos the first seven episos of season four that suggt he might be and has a csh on his straight btie Mike. Is will’s only storyle this season lerally jt beg gay?
If Will do end up beg gay season four, Schnapp’s character won’t be the first queer reprentatn we’ve had on the h Netflix show. Sops Ahoy server Rob (Maya Hawke) me out to Steve (Joe Keery) as gay at the end of season three.
“Throughout filmg, we started to feel like she and (Steve) shouldn’t get together, and that’s she’s gay. Stranger Thgs season 4 producer, Shawn Levy, addrs the qutn of whether Will is gay, sayg, "there aren't many accints" on the seri. Stranger Thgs season 4 producer Shawn Levy addrs whether Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) is gay.
NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY
One of the biggt qutns posed Stranger Thgs season 4 is whether Will is gay or not. View Levy's quote addrsg whether Will is gay or not blew:. Is Stranger Thgs season 4 htg Will is gay?