Noah Schnapp Just Confirmed Will Byers's Sexuality in Stranger Things for the First Time
15.07.2022 - 17:17
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Stranger Things spoilers incoming.If you haven't already binge-watched the epic finale of Stranger Things 4 then quite frankly, why are you reading this? Get yourself to Netflix, stat! The long-awaited volume 2 of dropped on July 1 and saw Eleven go head-to-head with the villainous Vecna, who is hell-bent on destroying Hawkins and taking over the world. That said, the internet is also alight with conversation about a certain scene between Will Byers () and Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard). Fans think it confirms speculation that Will is gay. In an interview with , Schnapp has waded into the debate. “It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends?" he said.
"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. But before, it was a slow arc.
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 elaborated on the slow build towards this inevitable climax and reveal, assuring us that it was the plan along for the storyline to be a slow burn.“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,” he says. “Even in Season 1, they hinted at that and slowly, slowly grew that storyline.
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. Will has always felt like that.”Stranger Things has long been hinting that Will might be gay, and is struggling to come out after developing feelings for Mike. In the first
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