After speculation, winks and doubts, many Stranger Things fans assumed that, after everything that happens in season 4, Will was in love with his best friend, Mike. This was already confirmed by the same actor: Noah Schnapp.
Stranger Things 4 He left us with many questions and raw feelings. Good and bad things happened, we met new characters, we said goodbye to others. However, we also discover new details of our young protagonists. In this note we are going to stop at Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) and in what many fans have been suspecting for several chapters.
One of the many things he gave us stranger things It is the opportunity to see how each of the protagonists grew up and became adolescents and young adults. However, one of the characters not only had to go through the typical problems that come with that age, but also dealt with the upsidedown, was possessed by Mind Flayer and felt that he was left out by his best friends. As they began to let go Dungeons & Dragons and were more interested in having girlfriends, Will he didn’t seem very interested in immersing himself in those changes.
During the fourth season of stranger things we see how Will struggles to fit in and tries to explain to his best friend, Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard)how do you feel, but it seems that we all understood what he was going for, except Mike.
Yes ok Noah Schnapp had said in May that the sexual orientation of Will “depended on the interpretation of the audience”, the actor recently clarified that “it is 100% clear” that your character loves Mike. Schnapp said he didn’t clarify this before to avoid spoiling the emotional journey of Will in the last two episodes of the season.
“This was a different season for Will. He was used to playing it [lidiando] with the Mind Flayer, the supernatural aspects and the darker and non-personal things. This season was something new for me. I had to explore him by navigating his personal identity issues and struggling to grow up and assimilate into high school.“, said Schnapp to Variety.
During the interview, the actor clarified that he was quite clear on Stranger Things 4 that Will feel something for Mike. “They’ve been intentionally bringing that out the last couple of seasons. Even in season 1, they hinted at that and little by little that story grew. I think for season 4, it was just me playing this character who loves his best friend, but he struggles with whether or not they will accept him and it feels like a mistake and like he doesn’t belong. Will it has always felt that way. All of his friends have girlfriends and fit in at their different clubs. Will He’s never really found a place to fit in.” he explained.
In the scene where Will Y Mike they talk in the van SPOILER EYE (while they are going to look for raise), Will he practically tells his friend how he feels about him, but he camouflages himself with the situation that Mike was going through with raise. Yes ok Jonathan and almost all the audience realized the reality, Mike No. This caused many fans of the series to think that Mike Actually, he is not as good a friend as he seems.
About this, Noah Schnapp said: “I think it’s kind of Mike dealing with their own stuff. In season 2 they were best friends and they were very close and then obviously Mike has all eyes on raise. Will he’s dealing with a bit of jealousy there. She just wants his best friend back and she wants it to be like in season 1 when they played D&D in his basement. But Mike he’s getting over that and now he only cares about raise”.
Another pivotal scene Will She was the one who talks to her older brother, who tells her that no matter what happens, he will always be there. The surprising thing is that this moment was not actually in the script: “After I did the scene in the van, where you see me crying and you see the protection of Jonathan looking in the rear view mirror, they said ‘we need a scene with that’. So they wrote it while we were filming”, he clarified Schnapp.
“It is also very important that people see that Will he’s not alone because all we see of him is struggling and feeling down and that he can’t be himself. Jonathan he is speaking to you in code. It’s the perfect way to tell someone like Will who cares about him and accepts him no matter what. I think she was really healthy”, explained the actor.
Apparently, the sexual orientation of Will It has been insinuating since the first season of Stranger Things. “It was always there, but you never really knew. Now that he grew up they made it very real and obvious. Now it is 100% clear that he is gay and loves Mike. But before, it was a slow bow. I think it’s very well done, because it’s very easy to suddenly make a character gay.”, he added Schnapp.
The fifth and final season, which looks set to arrive in 2024, will focus more on Will and they will build and develop their story a little more. But they won’t just stop at their feelings for Mikebut also in the connection with the upsidedown, the Mind Flayer and probably neighbor. “I’ve always wondered why Will was the first victim and the first captured? I just want to see that everything fits and everything works. So I’m excited to see what happens.”finished Noah Schnapp.