Noah Schnapp Reveals How He Came Out to ‘Stranger Things’ Costar Millie Bobby Brown

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When Noah Schnapp made a list of everyone he needed to come out to in his personal life, it included Stranger Things costar — and BFF — Millie Bobby Brown.  “I kept trying to do it in person with her, and it was too hard,” Schnapp, 18, told Variety in an interview published on Monday, August 7. “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!’” After telling his closest family and friends — including his “ecstatic” twin sister, Chloe — Schnapp came out to the public via a TikTok video in February.

In the clip, the actor posted footage of himself lip-synching to a woman saying, “You know what it never was? That serious,” with a text overlay reading, “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.’” The caption read: “I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought.” Speculation that Schnapp’s Stranger Things character, Will Byers, might be queer began in season 1 of the Netflix series, which premiered in 2016.

Schnapp later confirmed the teen is gay and in love with best friend, Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), — who is currently dating Eleven (Brown), — after the season 4 premiere in May 2022.