Noah Schnapp is gay: “Stranger Things” actor comes out [VIDEO]

About six months after his confirmation stranger things In addition to the often speculated sexuality of the character, actor Noah Schnapp has also come out as gay.

The announcement came via TikTok on Thursday (click to watch), and Schnapp wrote, “When I finally told my friends and family I’m gay after 18 years of closet anxiety, they just said, ‘We know it’.”

Schnapp’s post also includes him lip-syncing to someone’s audio saying, “You know what it never was? So serious. It’s never been this serious. Honestly, it never gets that serious.”

But Schnapp saves the best for his caption, “I think I’m more like Will than I thought I was.”

This, of course, is a direct reference to him stranger things Character all but confirmed to have had feelings for best friend Mike (played by Finn Wolfhard) during the fourth season of the Netflix drama.

“It was a slow arc,” Schnapp told TVLine’s sister magazine diversity about Will coming to terms with his sexuality. “I think it’s so beautifully done because it’s so easy to make a character look like it’s suddenly gay. They write this real character and this real journey and this real fight and they do it so well.”