Noah Schnapp - best known for his role as Will Byers on Netflix's Stranger Things - has recently come out as gay.
Taking to TikTok on Thursday, the 18-year-old actor posted a video of him alongside the words: "When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after being scared in the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know'".
The video also showed himself lip-syncing to an audio clip of someone else saying: "You know what it never was? That serious. It was never that serious. Quite frankly, will never be that serious."
In the caption, Schnapp also confirmed the news by writing: "I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought" - with the teen actor referring to the fact that his character on Netflix's hit show is gay and in love with his best friend Mike (played by 20-year-old Finn Wolfhard).
In an interview with Variety back in July, Schnapp confirmed Byers' sexuality for the first time.
"It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends?" Schnapp said. "Now that he’s gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing.
"Now it’s 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike."
While the 18-year-old was always hesitant to answer questions relating to his character's sexuality, he did admit that he wasn’t entirely sure what Stranger Things creators had in mind for Byers but season 4 gave everyone the answers they were looking for.
"I think it is done so beautifully, because it’s so easy to make a character just like all of a sudden be gay," Schnapp told the outlet. "People have come up to me — I was just in Paris and this, like, 40-year-old man came up to me and he was like, 'Wow, this Will character made me feel so good. And I related to it so much.
"That is exactly who I was when I was a kid.' That just made me so happy to hear.
"They are writing this real character and this real journey and real struggle and they’re doing it so well."
And according to the outlet, when the interviewer asked the star if he had any difficulty navigating his character's sexuality while at the same time figuring out his own, Schnapp opened up about navigating it all.
"I think it’s all just part of the challenge of acting," he said. "This isn’t just a single layer thing of he’s struggling with coming out. It’s this multifaceted trauma that goes years back, because he was taken by the Demogorgon and then his friends, they never acknowledged him, and now he’s scared to come out and doesn’t know if they’ll accept him."
Well, it seems as though everyone has accepted the teen for who he is!