Connor Storrie of Heated Rivalry set for ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’
The takeover of ‘Heated Rivalry’ continues. Connor Storrie, who plays Ilya Rozanov on the Crave/HBO Max hit, will make his late-night television debut on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on Monday, Jan. 12.
The news comes a day after it was announced that his co-star Hudson Williams will make it are late-night TV debut on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday, January 7.
Since the series debuted in November, it has become a big hit for both Bell Media’s Crave in Canada and HBO Max, which bought the series just before it was released.
An adaptation of the “Game Changers” novels, “Heated Rivalry” tells the love story between Ilya and Shane Hollander (Williams), two closeted hockey players who form a secret romantic relationship; over the course of the six episodes, the relationship grows from purely physical to deeply romantic.
Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Dylan Walsh and Christina Chang in the ‘Heated Rivalry’ final.
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In the finale, the duo finally gets to spend two weeks together and exchange ‘I love yous’. Their relationship is also revealed to Shane’s parents and Ilya stays by his side when he comes out.
“That was the element of the story I was most excited about, because it’s really cool in that way Emily Longeretta Jacob Tierney wrote it,” Storrie said recently Variety about the final in the house. “There’s this kind of cool crescendo where it happened so quickly and quickly – the editing, the writing – with so much energy upfront, and then it lands and we’re just two people in a house for a few days.”
He continued, “As an actor, those are where a lot of the cool acting moments happen, where we can actually be in some of those scenes for a really long time. It’s kind of an episode where there’s officially a catharsis. People don’t realize it, because of all the intimate scenes, but this story is really about people falling in love from a distance. To see that finally come together, there’s a catharsis.”
