Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp confirms Will is homosexual, frightened of popping out: ‘He does love Mike’

Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has lastly confirmed that his character Will Byers is homosexual on the present. Noah had beforehand mentioned that Will’s sexuality was open to the viewers’s interpretation, however that was earlier than the release of quantity 2 of season 4, which featured an emotional scene between Will and Mike. Noah has now mentioned that it was very clear within the just lately launched season that Will is, in truth, homosexual. Also Read| Stranger Things season 4 finale: An almost-perfect, coolest season ending

Noah confirmed that Will is in love along with his finest buddy Mike Wheeler, performed by Finn Wolfhard, however would not wish to damage Eleven’s emotions by confessing it. Noah additionally mentioned that he’s hoping for Will to have a coming-out scene within the fifth and final season of the Netflix present.

In a current interview with Variety, Noah mentioned, “I mean, it’s pretty clear this season that Will has feelings for Mike. They’ve been intentionally pulling that out over the past few seasons…I think for Season 4, it was just me playing this character who loves his best friend but struggles with knowing if he’ll be accepted or not, and feeling like a mistake and like he doesn’t belong…It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends? 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.”

Noah additionally addressed a possible coming-out scene for Will in season 5, saying, “This isn’t just a single layer thing of he’s struggling with coming out. It’s this multifaceted trauma that goes years back, because he was taken by the Demogorgon and then his friends, they never acknowledged him, and now he’s scared to come out and doesn’t know if they’ll accept him. And then Eleven is like his sister, but he doesn’t want to hurt her because if he says he likes Mike, that’s gonna hurt her feelings.”

The fifth season of the Netflix authentic sequence by Matt and Ross Duffer is anticipated to return out in 2024. Apart from Noah and Finn, the sci-fi horror sequence additionally stars Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Sadie Sink, Caleb McLaughlin, Winona Ryder and David Harbour, amongst others.