Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers in the cult Netflix series, Stranger Things, says season 4 will be “unexpected” and “romantic.” Schnapp, who made his acting debut alongside Tom Hanks in the 2015 historical drama, Bridge of Spies, also lent his voice to the character of Charlie Brown in the animated Peanuts Movie. One year later, his life would be forever changed when he appeared as the missing boy, Will Byers, in the first season of Stranger Things.
Created by Matt and Ross Duffer, since its 2016 debut, Stranger Things has built a loyal fanbase and earned itself a swathe of awards for its acting, writing, visual effects, and production, including ten Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Since the last season's release in 2019, fans have been waiting with bated breath for the hotly anticipated fourth season, which was first teased in September 2019. After a series of production delays owing to the Coronavirus pandemic, Schnapp himself had finally revealed filming on the latest season had wrapped last month.
More recently, while Schnapp was speaking to People about his new line of vegan snack foods, he offered fans a little insight into what lies ahead for the show’s beloved cast. Saying that he “had a blast” filming the new season, he suggests that fans are in for something “unexpected, romantic and exhilarating.” He also went on to suggest the new season will be “the best one yet.” Check out more of what Schnapp said below:
I was with a great group of people and I bonded with everyone a lot and I had a good time. I think this season is going to be the best one yet. It's something to be excited about.
Every season we have different storylines and different people that I get to work with. I think this season, it was the most unexpected. [There were] certain people I'd never worked with before. It just really opened my eyes and I had such a good time doing it.
Romance has always played a central role in the Stranger Things world, with several relationships developing throughout the last few seasons. Aside from Eleven and Mike’s blossoming teenage romance, which was the cause of much consternation to David Harbour’s Jim Hopper throughout season 3, the show has also seen love bloom between Nancy Wheeler and Jonathon Byers, Lucas and Max, and Hopper and Winona Ryder’s Joyce Byers. Even Gaten Matarazzo’s fan-favorite character Dustin, shocked his friends by proving his long-distance girlfriend Suzie was real by serenading her with the theme song to The Never Ending Story in the season 3 finale.
Schnapp’s character Will, however, found himself increasingly being left out of the loop as each of his friends paired off romantically during season 3. Perhaps this new revelation hints that Will may finally find a potential love interest of his own throughout season 4. It will also be interesting to see how Joyce’s decision to leave the town of Hawkins with her sons and Eleven will impact each of their respective relationships. In addition to this, viewers will also be keen to see if Joe Keery’s Steve Harrington finally finds happiness, probably having undergone the show’s most dramatic character arc and transforming from a high-school bully into a much-beloved, yet unlucky-in-love cast member. There is no doubt that anticipation for what the new season has in store will reach fever-pitch by the time Stranger Things season 4 hits Netflix in 2022.
Source: People