Instagram recommeded The Luke Ellison Kokotek, "you can call me Bear," an actor known for playing the young Will Byers in two 2025 episodes of Stranger Things.
Episode 5.1: The young Will, hiding in the Upside Down parallel world, is captured by the monstrous Vecna.
Episode 5.4: Vecna makes the teenage Will relive the capture and says that it made him realize that he could kidnap more kids and use them to take over the outer world.
That's enough for Luke to be interviewed on podcasts and invited to a lot of fan conventions, and to become friends with Noah Schnapp (the teenage Will). Luke's mom writes: "Thanks for always being a call away...our family loves you."
Left: Noah Schnapp's bulge, in case you haven't seen it recently.
Will drops some hints about being gay in earlier seasons, and finally comes out in Episode 5.7. Noah himself came out in 2023. Could they have cast a gay kid to play the Young Will?
It wouldn't hurt to check.
Luke was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the youngest of the five children of May Miles H., "a beekeeper, biologist, teacher, animal rescuer, chess junkie, and actress." I haven't found her on the IMDB, so she must be in the theater.
All five of her children are actors. The oldest, Finnan, is over 18 and rather cute.
Their last name is Croatian, a diminuitive of kotek, "cock," as in "rooster."
So: "Small cock." It's not that small. (Explicit after the break).
Luke has nine acting credits on the IMDB, beginning in 2023 with 115 Grains, about a police officer dealing with the trauma of his past. Pilot Bunch co-stars.
In 2024:
Game of Heirs. No description available, but it's not a Game of Thrones parody.
Scared to Death. Some ghost hunters stake out an abandoned children's home, where the ghosts of the kids terrorize them.
More after the break.
