Stranger Issues actor Noah Schnapp has come out as homosexual, sharing the information with followers in a TikTok video.
Schnapp, 18, performs the closeted homosexual teenager Will Byers on the Netflix present, and has fielded many questions on Byers’ sexuality from followers and interviewers through the years.
Within the viral video, which has accrued 11.9 million views and counting, Schnapp writes: “After I lastly informed my family and friends I used to be homosexual after being scared within the closet for 18 years and all they mentioned was ‘we all know’.”
Watch the video above.
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Within the video, Schnapp lip-syncs to audio of another person saying, “You already know what it by no means was? That critical. It was by no means that critical. Fairly frankly, won’t ever be that critical.”
He captioned the put up: “I suppose I am extra much like will than I assumed.”
Through the years, Schnapp has frequently deflected questions on his character’s sexuality, shutting down questions and insisting it was “as much as the viewers’s interpretation.”
However in July 2022, after the remaining two episodes of Stranger Issues season 4 aired, Schnapp confirmed that Will Byers was homosexual.
In an interview with Selection, Schnapp mentioned: “”It was at all times type of there, however you by no means actually knew, is it simply him rising up slower than his buddies?
“Now that he is gotten older, they made it a really actual, apparent factor. Now it is 100 per cent clear that he’s homosexual and he does love Mike,” he added.
Mike Wheeler is Byers’ greatest buddy and now long-standing crush within the present.
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Followers have celebrated Schnapp’s video on TikTok, and applauded his resolution to come back out of the closet.
“Pleased with you,” one fan wrote.
“SO PROUD OF YOU!!!… All of us love you sm I want nothing however one of the best!” one other wrote.
Schnapp took on his position on Stranger Issues on the younger age of 10, alongside stars Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Joe Keery.
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