{"id":155301,"date":"2025-12-27T07:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=155301"},"modified":"2025-12-27T07:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:55:32","slug":"noah-schnapp-opens-up-about-wills-coming-out-in-the-stranger-things-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/noah-schnapp-opens-up-about-wills-coming-out-in-the-stranger-things-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Schnapp opens up about Will\u2019s coming out in the Stranger Things finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The scene fans waited 10 years for<\/h2>\n<p>In a December 25, 2025, <strong>Variety<\/strong> interview, <strong>Noah Schnapp<\/strong> finally spilled everything about the most emotional moment of \u201cStranger Things 5.\u201d Since the Netflix show first launched in 2016, audiences could tell Will Byers stood apart among the characters. His disappearance in Episode 1 became the heartbeat of the series, and even as the group grew up and found relationships, Will stayed on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>Fans theorized about Will\u2019s sexuality for years, especially after his Season 4 breakdown over trying to explain his feelings to Mike. Things took a turn for Season 5 Episode 7, titled \u201cThe Bridge,\u201d where the world heard what Will and the fans have been wanting to say for years. Will says, \u201cI don\u2019t like girls,\u201d a line Noah calls \u201cperfect\u201d and one that launches Will from scared kid to supernatural hero.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2004580723454591403?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Noah Schnapp says they spent 12 hours filming Will\u2019s monologue in \u2018STRANGER THINGS\u2019 Season 5 Vol 2 and another 12 hours on reshoots<\/p>\n<p>The Duffer Brothers say it was the scene that took the longest to write for the entire season<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3uMyX23pJf\">https:\/\/t.co\/3uMyX23pJf<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7sggCgzOWp\">pic.twitter.com\/7sggCgzOWp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2004580723454591403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Filming that took everything out of him<\/h2>\n<p>Noah Schnapp told Variety he received the script in August or September this year. He texted Matt and Ross Duffer constantly asking when the moment would happen, and when he finally read it, he cried. Shooting the scene was intense, as it took a 12-hour day and then another week later for a second 12-hour session, just reshooting. The actor said the monologue had more lines than he had ever spoken in the show. He leaned on co-star Maya Hawke for prep tips since the emotional weight was real. Noah Schnapp publicly came out in 2023, which made connecting to Will\u2019s vulnerability feel deeply personal.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cOh my God, it was endless. It was like a 12-hour day of just that monologue. And we weren\u2019t even done after the 12-hour day. We came back a week later to reshoot certain parts of the scene for another 12 hours. It was like, \u2018Oh my God, how many more times can I do this scene?\u2019 But it was also nice because it allowed me to try so many different things. I never felt stuck to anything. I got advice from Maya on how to prepare for it, because there were so many lines, more lines than I\u2019d ever had before.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<h2>Why he says Will does not call himself \u201cgay\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>One detail he personally discussed with the Duffers was the wording. He told Variety that in the 1980s, it could have felt terrifying to say the word \u201cgay,\u201d especially as a teenager at that time. According to the actor, Will tells his friends, \u201cI don\u2019t like girls\u201d because it feels safer and more honest in that moment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cYeah, I noticed that and I spoke to the Duffers about it specifically. We have to remember that it&#8217;s the 1980s. When I came out, I didn\u2019t say the word \u2018gay.\u2019 It\u2019s hard, and it feels scary to say it. In the \u201980s, I can\u2019t imagine how much more pressure there was and how much more there was to lose. When Will is first coming to terms with it in front of his friends, he\u2019s probably scared to use that word, but there\u2019s nothing wrong with it. I think he just felt more comfortable phrasing it that way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>He also reflected on closing out his decade with the series and now having younger actors on set who look up to him. He said playing handshakes with them made him feel twelve again and reminded him how far the cast has come from the beginning of this Upside Down journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene fans waited 10 years for In a December 25, 2025, Variety interview, Noah Schnapp finally spilled everything about the most emotional moment of \u201cStranger Things 5.\u201d Since the Netflix show first launched in 2016, audiences could tell Will Byers stood apart among the characters. His disappearance in Episode 1 became the heartbeat of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":155310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1441],"tags":[1853],"class_list":["post-155301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-series","tag-stranger-things"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}