Charlie Heaton explains why he kept his relationship with Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer a secret

They’ve kept their relationship status fairly private.

And Charlie Heaton explained to GQ that his romance with co-star Natalia Dyer wasn’t necessarily a secret from the start.

The 26-year-old Stranger Things star admitted that the couple had a difficult time even defining what their new status meant. 

When asked what took so long for the couple to make things official publicly, Heaton revealed that there wasn’t a reason. 

‘We didn’t really know what the relationship was,’ Heaton said. ‘The caginess, anyway, might have been unnecessary.’ 

Heaton and Dyer met in a casting room before officially landing their respective roles on the popular Netflix show.

And Stranger Things co-creator Matt Duffer admitted that the pair’s chemistry was out of control when they first read for their parts, with Heaton landing the role as Jonathan Byers and Natalia playing Nancy Wheeler. 

‘That first audition, we did a chemistry read with [Heaton and] Natalia, and sparks were flying,’ Duffer said.

Stranger Things follows a group of teenagers in the fictional town of Hawkins during the ’80s, and also stars Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, David Harbour and Finn Wolfhard.  

Natalia previously explained to InStyle magazine that she likes to give her relationships ‘100 percent’ and keep her love life out of the spotlight and off social media. 

‘It’s [social media] a great platform, but it scares me. I’m fearful of general accessibility,’ she said. ‘I got rid of my Facebook; I don’t do Twitter. I prefer to keep my personal life separate. My Instagram is a lot more work-based than life-based.’ 

Charlie heads to the silver screen in April, working alongside Maisie Williams and Anya Taylor-Joy in the X-Men spin-off, The New Mutants.