‘Stranger Things’ star Noah Schnapp comes out as gay on TikTok

American actor Noah Schnapp who plays the role of Will Byers on Netflix’s hit sci-fi horror series Stranger Things, has come out as gay.

ALSO READ: ‘Stranger Things’ season four: Netflix releases official trailer [watch]

NOAH ‘I AM MORE SIMILAR TO WILL’

Noah Schnapp revealed his sexual orientation on Thursday, after sharing a Tik Tok video of him in bed. Lip-syncing to voice-over audio, the actor says, “You know what it never was? That serious. It was never that serious. Quite frankly, will never be that serious.” The video was accompanied by a note that reads, “When I finally told my friends and family I was gay … all they said was ‘we know.”

Noah captioned the post, “I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought.”

Fans took to the comment section to applaud him for coming out while others were shocked that he was gay. Ever since Stranger Things premiered, fans have been wondering what his character’s sexual orientation is.

@noahschnapp

I guess I’m more similar to will than I thought

♬ original sound – princessazula0

ALSO READ: ‘Yellowjackets’: Where to stream ‘the best horror’ drama series [watch]

NOAH REVEALS HIS CHARACTER WILL IS ALSO GAY

In an interview with Variety in July 2022, Noah revealed that his character was gay

“Obviously, it was hinted at in Season 1: It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends?” Schnapp said.

He added, “Now that he’s gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing. Now it’s 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike.”
 
It was in season four that Will’s romantic side emerged more fully as he seemed to be infatuated with his friend Mike Wheeler.“I think it is done so beautifully because it’s so easy to make a character just like all of a sudden be gay,” Schnapp said. He added that avid viewers of the series have been telling him beautiful stories about how they resonate with his character “People have come up to me — I was just in Paris and this, like, 40-year-old man came up to me and he was like, ‘Wow, this Will character made me feel so good. And I related to it so much. That is exactly who I was when I was a kid.’ That just made me so happy to hear. They are writing this real character and this real journey and real struggle and they’re doing it so well.”

ALSO READ: ‘Stranger Things’: Hawkins kids are ready for more twists and turns! [watch]