‘Stranger Things’ Star Noah Schnapp Confirms Will Is Gay and ‘He Does Love Mike’

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“Stranger Things” Season 4, one of the more personal mysteries concerned Will Byers’ (Noah Schnapp) sexuality and his potential romantic feelings for his best friend Mike (Finn Wolfhard).

And while Will doesn’t explicitly profess his feelings for his friend in the season, fans came away with a pretty good understanding of how Will actual felt.Now, actor Noah Schnapp is confirming what’s been teased through the series for years now: Will is gay and he’s in love with Mike.Season 4 looked to be directly addressing Will’s feelings in some form or fashion through the first batch of episodes, and in Volume 2, Will gives his best friend Mike a pep talk about saving Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) that, subtexually, serves as something of a confession for how much Mike means to him.While Will doesn’t officially come out in Season 4, Schnapp told Variety the arc for his character is clear.“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.

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.”While the scene in the van between Will and Mike is a heartbreaking moment for Schnapp’s character, another emotional breakthrough comes when his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) picks up on Will’s feelings and gives him a pep talk of his own.