Stranger Thgs’ Noah Schnapp Confirms Will Is “Gay and Do Love Mike” | Vany Fair

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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 MORECAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWTHE 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 MATERHAS THE HAMPTONS FALLY FOUND ITS GREAT EQUALIZER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYSAVANNAH WALSH

'Stranger Thgs' producer and director Shawn Levy addrs theori that Will might be gay after THAT season 4 episo. * wills gay walk stranger things *

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.

IS STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 HTG WILL IS GAY? PRODUCER SAYS 'THERE AREN'T MANY ACCINTS' ON SHOW

Stranger Thgs season 4 mak this big mistake wh Will's gay g out storyle. * wills gay walk stranger things *

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. 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.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

"Stranger Thgs" discsn about Will Byers, beg a gay teen the '80s and horror * wills gay walk stranger things *

Is Stranger Thgs season 4 htg Will is gay? " The qutns all have to do wh whether or not Will uld be gay and love wh Mike. 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.

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.

'STRANGER THGS' SEASON 4 MAK A BIG MISTAKE WH WILL'S GAY STORYLE

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. * wills gay walk stranger things *

” 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.

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

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While we don't have fe answers for any of the qutns jt yet—We're thkg Steve, Fenty, and narcissism, that precise orr—the Duffer brothers did promise that the biggt qutn of all would fally be addrsed properly volume two (via Variety), is Will Byers a fledglg gay the makg?

 STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 EPISO 8 DID WILL ADM HE IS GAY EMOTNAL NVERSAN WH MIKE FLIX

After many, many hours and many more endgs, we fally have an answer: Will is kd of fely gay, kd cred: NetflixSo there you have . But 's the bt we've got right first "Will is kd of fely gay, kd of" moment arriv episo eight when Will fally reveals what's his secret patg. Defely not, fe, 's very obv to everyone watchg, cludg Will's own brother, Jonathan, that Will probably fely maybe thks all the thgs as well and that he too is love wh 's a tale as old as time: gay boy falls love wh straight bt iend, straight bt iend falls love wh Eggo-lovg psychic, so gay boy pats a dragon picture to exprs his feelgs for straight bt iend, but that giv straight bt iend the urage to tell Eggo-lovg psychic that he lov her, leavg gay boy behd to look out the r wdow and cry while pretendg he's an MTV mic 've all been that's why the le, "When you're different sometim, you feel like a mistake, " probably h home for a lot of queer people watchg particular.

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It certaly stuck wh Jonathan, who later took Will asi volume two's send "Will is kd of fely gay, kd of" moment. Will's moment wh Jonathan only mak sense if Will is gay, so there's more gog on than jt mere implitn. Yet Will's nermost secrets are only acknowledged briefly a very roundabout what's worse is that the "kd of fely gay, kd of" moments aren't really service of Will's story at that emotnal nversatn wh Mike, Will is clearly g out if you read between the l.

Fans who pleted Volume 2 of "Stranger Thgs" Season 4 will know Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) has fally, a roundabout way, e out as gay. The show don't actually say he's gay outright. Beyond the hts subtle or big, fans of the horror genre might have known Will Byers was always gog to be gay.

It mak sense at a time when the AIDS crisis helped spur greater pictns of gay men and trans characters as monsters film.

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

In fact, many cultural and film crics suggt that Anne Rice drew om the real-life horrors of the AIDS crisis (imaged as the "gay man's ncer" ially by doctors) when craftg her groundbreakg gay characters "Interview wh the Vampire, " as she had always supported the LGBTQ muny and wanted to addrs the 's rhetoric that poed gay people as monsters.

In 1984, real-life Indiana born and raised Ryan Whe, although not himself gay, was diagnosed wh AIDS after ntractg the disease om a blood transfn.

Like Freddy Keger (who has a gay fandom of his own), he is also a monster pable of slippg to the mds of his victims. There have been a lot of talks about Will’s sexualy the ‘Stranger Thgs’ universe and Season 4 ma everyone believe that he is gay and is actually love wh Mike.

HOW STRANGER THGS MISHANDL WILL'S GAY STORYLE SEASON 4

He lled himself “different” which nfirms (partially) that talks about his sexualy were te and he is GAY. Is Will Byers gay?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. While we don't have fe answers for any of the qutns jt yet — We're thkg Steve, Fenty, and narcissism, that precise orr — the Duffer brothers did promise that the biggt qutn of all would fally be addrsed properly volume two (via Variety), is Will Byers a fledglg gay the makg? After many, many hours and many more endgs, we fally have an answer: Will is kd of fely gay, kd of.

It's a tale as old as time: gay boy falls love wh straight bt iend, straight bt iend falls love wh Eggo-lovg psychic, so gay boy pats a dragon picture to exprs his feelgs for straight bt iend, but that giv straight bt iend the urage to tell Eggo-lovg psychic that he lov her, leavg gay boy behd to look out the r wdow and cry while pretendg he's an MTV mic 've all been there. Yet Will's nermost secrets are only acknowledged briefly a very roundabout what's worse is that the "kd of fely gay, kd of" moments aren't really service of Will's story at all. That release never me, but there were a few more teas that strongly suggted he's gay.

STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 PRODUCER ADDRS QUTN OF IF WILL IS 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.

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