"Stranger Things" star Noah Schnapp commented on his coming out on the Tiktok platform.
The 18-year-old posted a video with text displayed, in which he reports on the unsurprised reactions of those around him.
"When I finally told my friends and family that I was gay," they just said, "We know that."
For 18 years he fearfully hid in the closet.
He is referring to the English idiom for coming out (“to come out of the closet”; in German: to come out of the closet).
Schnapp told Variety in July that his Stranger Things character Will was gay.
"I guess I'm more like Will than I thought I was," he wrote next to his Tiktok video.
In the comments, many expressed their support for the actor.
Since 2016, Schnapp has embodied the character of Will Byers in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things.
The mystery series not only tells of monsters from a parallel dimension, but also accompanies the young main characters as they grow up.
While his friends develop an interest in girls over the course of the season, Will remains shy and reserved on the show - though it's becoming apparent that he harbors feelings for his best friend, Mike (Finn Wolfhard).
In 2017, the ensemble received a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Schnapp won a 2018 MTV Movie Award in the Scariest Performance category.