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It’s Mrs. Strange back again.
On today’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will go over an interview for Stranger Things
season 4 with Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown, who address Will Byers’ sexuality
in season 4.
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With 16 main characters, at least a dozen new characters, and five major locations — including
a prison in Soviet-era Russia and a converted underground missile silo somewhere in the
American West — it’s frankly surprising that Stranger Things 4 has any time to explore
quiet moments of personal growth.
But anyone tracking the journey of Will Byers over the course of the show has noticed that
the kid who survived the Upside Down has struggled to reconnect with his old Dungeons and Dragons
buddies for reasons that don’t seem to have much to do with being captured by a demogorgon
from an alternate dimension.
That impression has only grown stronger in season 4.
In the first episode, Will and Eleven have to give a presentation in their new California
high school on a hero they look up to, and Will chooses Alan Turing, the gay mathematician
who was prosecuted in the 1950s for his sexuality and forced to undergo chemical castration.
Will also physically recoils from a girl who shows interest in him, and when Mike visits
from Hawkins in Episode 2 over spring break, Will appears heartbroken that Mike has been
so indifferent to him in favor of his girlfriend, Eleven.
Later, in Episode 4, when Mike confides in Will that he wishes he’d expressed his feelings
for El more plainly to her, Will offers insight that could easily apply to anyone working
up the courage to come out to a best friend.
“Sometimes, I think it’s just scary, to open up like that — to say how you really
feel, especially to people you care about the most.
Because what if — what if they don’t like the truth?”
In an interview with Variety, however, Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown had a more
ambiguous perspective on how the show’s writers, led by creators and executive producers
Matt and Ross Duffer, have approached Will’s sexuality.
“I feel like they never really address it or blatantly say how Will is.
I think that’s the beauty of it, that it’s just up to the audience’s interpretation,
if it’s Will kind of just refusing to grow up and growing up slower than his friends,
or if he is really gay.”
At this point, Brown chimed in.
“Can I just say, it’s 2022 and we don’t have to label things.
I think what’s really nice about Will’s character is that he’s just a human being
going through his own personal demons and issues.
So many kids out there don’t know, and that’s OK.
That’s OK to not know.
And that’s OK not to label things.”
Noah Schnapp agreed with her.
“I find that people do reach to put a label on him and just want to know, so badly, like,
‘Oh, and this is it.’
He’s just confused and growing up.
And that’s what it is to be a kid.”
We shall see how Will Byers develops as a character in the final two episodes of Stranger
Things 4.
Will he confess his feelings to Mike?
Is Byler going to happen in season 4?
We shall see.
Overall, super exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
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