Millie Bobby Brown Reveals How She Found Out Stranger Things’ Ending Before Her Costars
Spoilers for the final season of Stranger Things ahead.
Series creators Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer completely nailing Will Byers’ coming out moment? Stranger things have definitely happened.
Admittedly, Noah Schnapp—who’s inhabited Will on Netflix’s Stranger Things since its 2016 debut—was fully prepared to offer his insight, having publicly come out himself in January 2023.
“I was worried that I might need to,” he recently told Variety of workshopping the season five, episode seven moment with the Duffer brothers and episode director Shawn Levy, “but honestly, it was perfect. I really had no notes about it.”
Early in season one, Will’s mom Joyce (Winona Ryder) mentioned his father had sneeringly called him queer. And in season three, Finn Wolfhard‘s Mike took issue with his friend not liking girls.
But it wasn’t until the current final season that Schnapp delivered Will’s poignant monologue, admitting that no, “I don’t like girls.”
With all the buildup, “You know that it’s coming,” Schnapp explained. So after reading through the season’s first six episodes, “I kept texting the Duffers, ‘Is it done? Did you write it? Is it in 7 or 8? How are you gonna write it?'”