It was a strange thing.
“Stranger Things” star Finn Wolfhard, 23, hosted “Saturday Night Live” on Jan. 17 – and while many of his former cast mates came on to support him, Noah Schnapp was missing.
It turns out, he was at Milan Fashion Week. Schnapp, 21, was seen at Ralph Lauren Men’s Fall/Winter 2026 fashion show in Italy on Friday, one day before “SNL” taped across the pond in New York City.
Wolfhard’s fellow cast mates Gaten Matarazzo, 23, and Caleb McLaughlin, 24, both made appearances during Wolfhard’s opening monologue.
“So … meet the new me. The man me. Because I’m not a kid anymore,” Wolfhard said onstage.
The two other actors interrupted to say, “And neither are we! We’re not child stars, we’re former child stars.”
Matarazzo quipped, “And anytime you read ‘Former Child Star’ in a headline, it can only mean good things.”
“It’s true,” said Wolfhard. “So thanks to everyone who watched us grow up on the show.”
McLaughlin chimed in, “And then went online and commented about our changing faces and bodies.”
Wolfhard, Schnapp, Matarazzo, and McLaughlin all played a group of best friends on “Stranger Things,” which ended with its fifth and final season on New Year’s Eve after nearly 10 years on the air.
The hit Netflix series follows their characters – plus assorted friends like Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Steve (Joe Keery) – through adventures in the ‘80s.
Brown, 21, has been outspoken on the subject of the public commenting on their faces and bodies.
She’s taken to social media several times to slam trolls comparing her to a “40 year old New Jersey Housewife.”
“Women grow!! not sorry about it :)” Brown wrote in a Jan. 2025 Instagram post.
Several “Stranger Things” cast members came to New York City to support Wolfhard for his big “SNL” debut.
Keery, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, and even series creators Matt and Ross Duffer were spotted at the “SNL” afterparty.
In a February 2023 interview with GQ, Wolfhard said that he and his “Stranger Things” co-stars are, “not on everyday-text vibes in any way” but are “family” and “talk on each other’s birthdays” and “once in a while.”
He noted, “In the same way that family works, if I ever needed anything, they’re there.”
