Noah Schnapp was used A TikTok audio to reveal that he is gay. Thursday, the unfamiliar things The actor posted a video of himself lip-syncing to the viral audio, sharing his sexuality and his family’s reaction to the news.
“When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after 18 years of being scared in the closet and all they said was ‘we know,'” he wrote onscreen with a video of him lip-syncing to the viral TikTok sound: “Y’all. Know it never. Wasn’t? That serious. Never that serious. Obviously, it will never be serious.”
In the video’s caption, Snape referenced her unfamiliar things character Will Byers, who he confirmed is gay in an interview earlier this year. “I’m more akin to Will than I thought,” Snape wrote of Will.
Snap’s comments section was flooded with congratulatory messages, including one from TikToker Chris Olsen, who wrote, “Welcome to the king.” “He said method acting,” one Tik Tok user joked in a comment. “I’m proud of you!” A third commenter wrote.
Earlier in unfamiliar things‘ history, Schnapp refused to reveal his character’s sexuality, saying “I know that people get to put a label on him and just want to know, so badly… he’s just confused and growing up. And it’s about being a kid. What’s up,” he said It was said earlier Variety.
But in summer, he Confirmed in an interview That Will was wrestling with being gay, just as he was in his personal life.
“Now that he’s older, they’ve made it a much more real, tangible thing,” he said in the summer. “Now it’s 100% clear that he’s gay and he loves Mike. But before, it was a slow arc. I think it’s done so beautifully, because it’s so easy to make a character like suddenly being gay.”
