Noah Schnapp: Will’s Stranger Things journey was “beautifully written”

Noah Schnapp has played Will Byers on Stranger Things since the beginning, and he’ll be front and center when the show returns for a final season. “[Creators Matt and Ross Duffer] won’t tell me specifics, but they were like, ‘You just wait. You will be very happy and excited. So sit tight,’” Schnapp told Us Weekly about the upcoming fifth season. “I think the story opened and started with Will, and I think ending it with him and circling back on that is a nice way for them to wrap it up.”

Will Byers did indeed get things going in season 1 when he was kidnapped into the Upside Down dimension, and has gone on one of the bigger arcs as the show progressed. In season 4, it was heavily hinted that Will was gay and harboring feelings for Mike (Finn Wolfhard), something Schnapp later confirmed.

“I think it’s beautifully written,” Schnapp said of Will’s journey. “They’ve had this vision for a long time, which you can tell even from season 1 how they wrote it with his character and how he was bullied and being called a fairy and all the way up from season 1 up until now. They’ve had this story line kind of in the works and I think their vision has been working really well.”

"I think the Mike and Will story line is definitely one that fans have a love-hate relationship with and kind of wish for a happy ending, but who knows what will happen there. And I just think in season 5, we’re all hoping that Will kind of fully embraces who he is and that we get to see that. And I think that’s the most important, at least for me."

Schnapp names the scene with Will and Mike in the van as one of his favorite scenes from the show, although he has a lot to choose from. “I think in season 2, I had to do a lot of screaming and a lot of acting possessed and have a seizure. And that was one crazy extreme to it, to act in that kind of way. But then also in season 4, it was more of, like, his personal struggles and personal heartbreak. And I think acting that part of Will and not the supernatural extreme was also really interesting and a great learning experience.”

Noah Schnapp goes viral for shading his teachers

Speaking of Schnapp, he’s also in the news for another reason: his senior quote in his high school yearbook. Someone who went to school with Schnapp shared it on TikTok and it’s since gone viral.

So what’s the quote?

"“To all the teachers that never taught me a thing.”– Stranger Things S2 Episode 3, 35:08"

Naturally, the internet tracked down that time stamp:

OKAY! So apparently Schnapp didn’t get on with his teachers in high school. Well, onto college.

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