Millie Bobby Brown reveals how she found out about the ending of ‘Stranger Things’ before her co-stars did
Spoilers for the upcoming final season of Stranger Things.
Did series creators Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer completely nail Will Byers’ coming out moment? Something strange certainly happened.
Indeed, Noah Schnapp, who has played Will on Netflix’s Stranger Things since it premiered in 2016, was more than ready to come out publicly and offer insight in January 2023.
“I was worried that we might have to do that,” he recently told Variety about workshopping Season 5, Episode 7 with the Duffer brothers and episode director Shawn Levy.
At the beginning of season 1, Will’s mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) said that his father derisively called him “queer.” And in Season 3, Mike, played by Finn Wolfhard, takes issue with his friend not liking girls.
But it wasn’t until the current final season that Schnapp delivered Will’s poignant monologue, admitting, “I don’t like girls.”
With all this buildup, “we know it’s coming,” Schnapp explained. So after finishing the first six episodes of the season, “I kept texting the Duffers, ‘Are you finished? Did you write it? How are you going to write it in episode seven or eight?'”
