Noah Schnapp is lastly residing his fact! The younger actor fondly mirrored on his on-set expertise whereas filming Stranger Issues season 5. The actor has starred within the beloved Netflix collection since he was 11, however this yr it was a extra liberating expertise for a giant motive.
Schnapp got here out as homosexual in 2023 and obtained immense help for his transfer. In an interview with Selection, he revealed that going again to set after popping out to the world was fairly an expertise.
“It’s been wonderful, it’s such a greater expertise having the ability to stroll onto that set and know that I’m lastly residing in truth,” he informed the outlet on the Broadway opening of Stranger Issues: The First Shadow in New York Metropolis on Tuesday, April 22.
“It made this season 1,000,000 occasions higher to not be hiding,” Schnapp, who performs Will on the present, added. The filming of season 5 wrapped in 2024, and the solid paid heartfelt tributes to their characters and the present.
Millie Bobby Brown posted a carousel of images dressed as her character, Eleven, on Instagram and wrote, “With love, el.” Finn Wolfhard, who performs Mike Wheeler, expressed his “shock and awe” in a prolonged submit that featured footage of the solid. “We shot it for a yr, and I’ll miss all of my associates and our characters terribly,” he added.
The present additionally stars Sadie Sink, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Joe Keery, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Winona Ryder, Maya Hawke, Matthew Modine, and Jamie Campbell Bower.
Final season noticed the origin story of Vecna (Bower), Max (Sink) barely escaping his clutches, Jim Hopper reuniting with the squad, and Eleven (Brown) bracing herself for one closing battle with the last word villain to finish the Upside Down and produce peace to Hawkins.
Stranger Issues season 5 will air on Netflix on October 10, 2025.