Hooked on ice hockey drama Heated Rivalry? Meet Hudson Williams, who plays Shane Hollander
He played basketball, aspired to reach the UFC and was a stuntman once – but what did he say about his special chemistry with co-star Connor Storrie?
If your holiday season watch list has a very specific enemies-to-lovers-shaped hole, you’re in luck. Heated Rivalry is the internet’s latest obsession. The LGBTQ show, based on Rachel Reid’s Game Changers book series, pits two rising ice hockey stars, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, against each other on the ice – while they navigate much more complicated feelings off it.
“We’re trying to put something full of love out into the world,” the show’s creator Jacob Tierney said, per The Canadian Press. “Its very existence is an act of political resistance, but beyond that, it’s just a love story.”
Only a few episodes of Heated Rivalry have been released so far, but leading actors Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, who play Canadian Shane and Russian Ilya, have been making fans swoon with their extraordinary on-screen chemistry.
So what do we know about Hudson Williams? Read on to find out.
What is Hudson Williams’ background?
In the interview, the 24-year-old shared that representing his Asian-Canadian heritage on Heated Rivalry “meant a lot” to him and his mother. “She always thought it would be harder for me to break into film and acting because she hadn’t really seen [any leading actors of Asian descent],” he said.
How did he get cast in Heated Rivalry?
