Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp comes out as gay – Winter is Coming
Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers on the Netflix hit Stranger Things, has come out as gay. The actor revealed the information on TikTok, lip syncing to a clip about things not being that “serious.” On the video, he wrote, “When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after being scared in the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know.’” And in the caption, he wrote, “I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought.”
It’s long been theorized among Stranger Things fans that Schnapp’s character Will might himself be gay. The most recent season in particular dropped some strong hints, although it stopped short of confirming anything. However, Schnapp himself confirmed it in an interview he gave last summer. “Now it’s 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike,” he said.
Schnapp will return as Will in the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, which hasn’t yet begun to film.
Stranger Things stars receive big pay bump for final season
Stranger Things has come a long way since the first season aired in 2016. Back then, Schnapp and the other young actors — Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Finn Wolfhard — made $25,000 per episode. According to Puck News, each of them will make just over $7 million for the final season. Sadie Sink, who plays Max, will also get that deal.
There are three other pay tiers for season 5. The actors playing the older teen characters — Natalia Dyer, Maya Hawke, Charlie Heaton and Joe Keery — will receive $6 million apiece for the final season. Adult actors Winona Ryder and David Harbour will each receive $9.5 million. And breakout star Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven, is in a tier of her own. Everyone else will be paid “much less.”
Expect the fifth and final season of Stranger Things to come out on Netflix sometime in 2024.
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