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Stranger friends: how Millie Bobby Brown and Noah Schnapp became besties IRL, from meeting on the set of Netflix series Stranger Things and red carpet appearances, to making viral TikToks together

STORYUmesh Bhagchandani
Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown, pictured attending Stranger Things’ season four premiere at Netflix Brooklyn in New York City, on May 14, are clearly the best of friends. Photo: AFP
Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown, pictured attending Stranger Things’ season four premiere at Netflix Brooklyn in New York City, on May 14, are clearly the best of friends. Photo: AFP
Fame and celebrity

  • Stranger Things season four set multiple records for Netflix since it was released on May 27, beating recent Bridgerton stats – it was renewed for its fifth and final season too
  • Brown and Schnapp have been buddies since they met on set, attending red carpets and meeting stars like Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling and Rami Malek together

Netflix’s Stranger Things season four has already topped the streaming giant’s best debut weekend record for an English-language series. Its first set of episodes from the two volumes was released on May 27.

As reported by IndieWire, the show drew in over 286 million streaming hours from viewers and broke its previous hit Bridgerton season two record at 193 million hours.
Fans at the Stranger Things season four global fan event at Flatiron Plaza in New York, on May 26. Photo: AFP
Fans at the Stranger Things season four global fan event at Flatiron Plaza in New York, on May 26. Photo: AFP
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That’s not all though. The new season also reached the No 1 spot in 83 countries on Netflix during the premiere weekend. It set another milestone for the teenage sci-fi genre.

The now grown-up cast has achieved worldwide fame thanks to the show. Its main star Millie Bobby Brown, 18, has appeared in several hit films and earned major luxury brand deals by playing Eleven for four seasons on the show.
Millie Bobby Brown and Noah Schnapp at the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, in 2020. Photo: Getty Images/TNS
Millie Bobby Brown and Noah Schnapp at the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, in 2020. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

While the cast members have pretty good relationships off-camera, Brown and Noah Schnapp, 17, (who plays Will Byers on the show) share a particularly strong bond and are more than just co-stars – they are BFFs too!

Here we take a look into their adorable bond and the #BFFGoals they have built over the course of a seven-year-and-counting friendship.

They got close in 2015

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