Amid the promotions of the strong final episodes of season 5 of ‘Stranger Things,’ Noah Schnapp opens up about his reaction to reading Will Byers’ coming-out scene, generating mixed comments on social networks.
In conversations with Entertainment Tonight, the actor recalled the time he read the script for his character’s coming-out moving scene, which he studied for a month and was a highly anticipated moment for him and the audience.
Noah Schnapp has doubts about Will’s coming-out scene (WITH SPOILERS)
“I remember wondering, ‘Are they ever going to write it?’ And then we get here, and they wrote it not just with Joyce but with the entire cast standing there… like a press conference. I have to be honest, when everyone had to be like, ‘And me,’ ‘And me,’ I was like, err… Is that going to work?” said Noah Schnapp, who came out as gay on TikTok in 2023
🚨Spoiler alert for 'Stranger Things' season 5 volume 2!🚨
Noah Schnapp reveals he was very nervous about how Will Byers' coming out scene in the penultimate episode would turn out, but ultimately feels it was "perfect." pic.twitter.com/v4EM7e7dpA
— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) December 27, 2025
On social networks fans reacted to this revelation with mixed comments like “He’s correct, it was perfect,” “He should of fought for it to stay in the can,” “yeah like i thought it would be this intimate moment with joyce or something but the whole town was there Noah’s acting was amazing though,” “It was boring.”
