‘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

"I gus I'm more siar to Will than I thought," Noah Schnapp said, referrg to his Stranger Thgs character Will Byers, who he nfirmed was gay July" emprop="scriptn * is he gay stranger things *

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. 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'".

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 WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSAVANNAH WALSH

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... * is he gay stranger things *

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. " 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' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'

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

"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. “It’s a w for the gays”.

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

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. * is he gay stranger things *

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

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“Will Byers really ptur the gay teen experience, ” one Twter er claims.

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.

'STRANGER THGS' SEASON 4 EPISO 8: DID WILL ADM HE'S 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. " 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.

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. 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.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

He lled himself “different” which nfirms (partially) that talks about his sexualy were te and he 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’ STAR SAYS ‘IT’S 100% CLEAR WILL IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’

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. 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.

IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED

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.

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. Is Will Byers gay?

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

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. 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.

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

Clu Will Byers Is Gay In Stranger Thgs Season 4.

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

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.

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.

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