Noah Schnapp came out as gay publicly seven months ago, but before that, he came out to close friends and family.
One of those that he came out to was, of course, his best friend and Stranger Things co-star Millie Bobby Brown.
In a new interview, Noah shared how she reacted and how he had struggled with doing it in person.
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“I kept trying to do it in person with her, and it was too hard,” Noah shared with Variety. “So then I just FaceTimed her one day in the middle of a Party City and I was like, ‘Millie, I’m gay.’ And she was like, ‘Oh, Schnapper! You told me finally!’”
Noah also shared that when he told his twin sister Chloe, she was “ecstatic.”
“I was driving, and I just kept putting it off,” he said of trying to tell her along in the car. “Our house was right down the road, and she was like, ‘Why do you keep making these wrong turns?’ I was like, ‘I can’t do it, I can’t do it.’ Then we got home, and I was like, ‘Screw it.’”
“She said that she would’ve hated the idea of me marrying another girl and having to compete with that girl for my attention. The fact that now it’ll be a guy, she was like, ‘Oh, he’ll be my best friend.’”
In the interview, Noah shared that his Stranger Things character Will Byers helped him realize his own sexuality and come out, and how his portrayal of the character in the upcoming fifth and final season will be different now.
Once I did fully embrace that Will was gay, it was just an exponential speed towards accepting it for myself,” he told Variety. “I would be in a completely different place if I didn’t have Will to portray, and to embrace and help me accept myself. I think if I never played that character, I probably would still be closeted.”
“I think the way I act in Season 5, honestly, might be a little different,” he added. “I will be fully aware of who I am. Knowing all of that about myself and being able to invest that in my character, I’m honestly just excited.”
And in season five, according to writer and co-showrunner Ross Duffer, “Will really takes center stage again.”
“This emotional arc for him is what we feel is going to hopefully tie the whole series together. Will is used to being the young one, the introverted one, the one that’s being protected. So part of his journey, it’s not just sexuality — it’s Will coming into his own as a young man.”
At the start of the summer, it was revealed that production on season five would likely be delayed due to the writer’s strike, and was definitely delayed due to the actor’s strike.
Just last week, it was revealed that the new season may be a long ways away.
A new Stranger Things-themed haunted house will be at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights this year!
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