#byler interview

[gayofthefae]

Thinking about how actors understand their characters the best and how when asked where their characters would be today, Joe Keery specifically mentioned kids and Noah Schnapp mentioned a husband.

[bylerlovers]

BYLER NATION WAKE UP!! THIS IS INSANE the way he connects Mike and Will to Jancy and immediately defines both pairs as "people who do love each other very much"?

Like, he is purposely putting them in the same category as a literal romance. You don't make that parallel for "bros." He is equating the validity of their feelings. Byler mutual love is practically canon at this point.

BYLER LOVE EACH OTHERS BASICALLY CONFIRMED

[buckieduckie2]

i wanna be a stranger things interview cause i wont beat around the bush. nah ill get straight to the juicy, non open-ended questions. ill ask yes or no questions leave them in a studdering mess 😈

have you written the byler kiss yet? "...n-no- i mean! ye- WAIT- n-...well-"

do mike and will kiss? "... I... don't know. Well- no I mean like.. you know i don't know you know like- like who knows you know- i dont 😅"

what episode do mike and will kiss? "I DONT KNOW- WAIT. NO- WELL- HEY 😡!"

like c'mon. they need to start asking them THESE types of questions like theres no getting around those types of questions yk what im sayin ykyk

[gayofthefae]

New hap-satisfied just dropped.

Amybeth Mcnulty (Vickie) when asked "how gay" season 5 is 1-10, said

"I love the gays! I'm on a tv show- yes, of course"

On a tv show that what?

Because people don't just say "of course I love gays I'm on a TV show." That doesn't make any sense.

But they do say "of course I love gays, I'm on a tv show with multiple gay couples" and things of the like.

And sometimes, they might just cut themselves off from saying that.

[gayofthefae]

@pointmetotheundertow just pointed out a second cut they made to Finn's commentary

The first one being him saying "He didn't mean i-"[cut]"for it to come out like that"

And now we have

"It was like a very you know emotional scene for-"[cut]"-oah"

And I'm just saying, much in the vein of when Noah was asked how their "friendship develops" and just almost spoke then cut him off claiming "spoilers" like 4 times in a row, with Mike...

why is Finn, as the actor who knows the character best and the whole script and ending, why are his most-credible-of-anyone thoughts on Mike and Will scenes...spoilers, in need of cutting?

And the only two examples of this so far seem to imply that what was cut was some description about how Mike felt in the scene. In the first one, he probably elaborated on Mike's feelings even just vaguely and it was cut. In the second, he probably commented on the experience for both him and Noah.

I considered that it was cut down for time but their frickin short. I mean this is literally a "Short". And we haven't been seeing this type of mid-sentence cut in the others' like this.

But no. Based on what seems to have been cut here, we can confirm that we are currently unaware of how Mike has felt in scenes with Will. Could be paraphrased to we (GA) are currently wrong about how Mike has felt in scenes with Will. Because to admit how he felt would be a sensitive spoiler, worth cutting even vague references to it - because I'm sure Finn made no outright spoilers.

I can imagine the things cut were things like "he didn't mean it, he was just going through a lot" or "he was just struggling with himself". And "that was a very emotional scene for both of us, but moreso Noah" or something along those lines.

Very subtle at most, I'm sure. Like I said, he's done live interviews for years so I doubt he'd every spoil anything. But that just goes to show how under wraps this is too.

Two cases now of Finn having commentary on Mike limited or cut completely.

Makes sense. "That was really an emotional scene for only Will" is what the GA currently believes. "He didn't mean for it to come out like that" is the extent what the GA currently justifies.

[gayofthefae]

As an actor, you're so in your characters own perceptions that sometimes you forget how your character is perceived from the outside. Like the actor who played 002 told me he did not realize until he watch it that scenes like his electrocution and death were not even sympathizable or redeeming the way he thought.

On that note.

I think Finn really thought people would see Byler as soon as season 4 released and not be shipping Milkvan anymore.

Here he is being openly excited about Will having feelings for Mike in an interview ahead of season 4, not attempting any ambiguity

Here he is openly cringing at the ily monologue, with no regard to ambiguity or neutral opinion that you would have if you thought of it as not at all revealed.

Here he is surprised when people cheer for Mlvn

He didn't start hiding his opinion until later, he did not in initial promotion of season 4.

And all his reactions to Milkvan are like with the assumption that other people do not like them romantically. Consciously making a "yikes" face after the monologue and surprised when people cheer for Milkvan.

That one's really funny because he's saying "Mike and El's romance is cute bc season 1 was cute". He might be trying to be ambiguous, but he could also really think that about season 1. But he acts like he expected them to take something very different from that.

He just consistently in these interviews seems to act like the reaction he's anticipating from everyone around him to be Byler.

Because, like I said, we do have a tendency to mix up what we know to be true of the characters with what the audience knows.

He just filmed season 4. He was used to knowing so he forgot you didn't.

His earlier promo interviews for season 4 had an overall energy of "I don't have a preference ;D ;D *cough*byler*cough*"

Season 5 ones and conventions since are what have become more "I don't have a preference😐".

Maybe he noticed the reactions that he wasn't expecting, maybe PR talked to him, who knows.

But as an actor who, like others, surely remembers more of his character's inner world than the final product he's barely seen.....He acted as if everyone saw what he knew of Mike's experience that season.

In those first 3, openly not even trying to hide his reactions or preference. And then showing surprise when people reacted in support of Mike and El being together.

[gayofthefae]

Did we win? I think we fucking won.

Finn Wolfhard stars in a scene so emotionally rich and culminating of the show that it was filled with pure joy and the scene was celebrated after shooting it.

[gayofthefae]

I want you all to know that Finn was actually doing fine at the beginning of that monologue reaction in 2022

Leaning forward, engaged, fine

It's only when Mike gets closer to the actual "I love you" that he not only cringes but leans away in his chair, even his resting face looking more uncomfortable