(LA Blade) The 18-year-old actor Noah Schnapp, who plays the character of the closeted gay teenager Will Byers on Netflix’s smash science fiction series “Stranger Things,” has himself come out as gay.

In a video posted to his TikTok account on Jan. 5, Schnapp wrote, “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.’”

In the caption to his TikTok video, Schnapp wrote, “I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought.”

Los Angeles Blade courtesy of the National LGBTQ Media Association.