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Rubin said Blanche did not mind, and they married two years later.
"Clearly, I held back my sexuality. Without anything to tie Will to the central story of that season — the return of the Mind Flayer, this time using Billy Hargrove as its host — he was left to complain about his friends’ incessant girl problems and pester them about getting back into D&D.
“Or me,” they each say as they stand up to embrace Will in a group hug as he sobs enveloped in their love.
The nearly five-minute scene tugs at the heartstrings — yet another tear-jerking moment for Will this season after Episode 4’s revelation that he has powers.
“I was really nervous to see how [the Duffer Brothers] would write it, because it was obviously so important for me.
Won't happen again."
This is the first time Fox has spoken about her sexuality since her appearance on the "Ziwe" talk show in November 2022, when she said she had been thinking about dating women.
"Because I do think maybe I have some. And what I could focus on is just tapping into that feeling and that emotion.”
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Schnapp, who came out on TikTok in 2023, says you can’t sift his story from that of the character he’s been portraying for nearly a decade.
“I believe our journeys are pretty close in specific ways.
We came to understand him as a shy, sensitive, “different” young boy but also a warm, intelligent, curious, kind one.
We Need to Talk About Will
Depending on where you stand nine years into Stranger Things’s run, Will’s big scene in “The Bridge” might’ve moved you to tears — or fallen entirely flat.
Will definitely gave me confidence in my own life, and seeing how audiences reacted to his character made me proud of who I am publicly,” the 21-year-old actor says. “We had a leather night where we did a toy drive, and we got an insane amount of toys; it was amazing,” Dismang said. And test your knowledge of Stranger Things with our superfan quiz.
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"Just because I didn't want to process my realizations in real time on social media and spell them out for the world doesn't mean the journey wasn't long and thoughtful and exhaustive."
Reneé Rapp
For years, Reneé Rapp has identified as bisexual. Now, Will was mainly around to either yearn for his best friend — a story that never totally worked, especially because the feelings developed off-screen — or to deliver endless exposition about the Upside Down and the supernatural threat du jour.
Doesn’t Will deserve an arc that isn’t a conscious retread of another character’s backstory?
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