During an otherwise bleak news cycle, the stars of a queer Canadian hockey drama have managed to win hearts and minds.<\/i><\/p>\n
The Hollywood Reporter highlighted the joyous (generational even) Heated Rivalry press run and how Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams made it one to remember.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, witnessing two young, exceedingly green actors be so free in and genuinely enthusiastic about the moment they\u2019re experiencing is refreshing and endearing. Neither one of them is above it or blas\u00e9 about what is happening, as you so often see once fame hits \u2014 nor are they dismissive of or embarrassed by the premium smut that they\u2019re promoting. In fact, when asked about the many explicit sex scenes in their hockey drama, Williams and Storrie \u2014 24 and 25, respectively \u2014 have consistently offered honest, tender answers, and both have said they were considerably more comfortable filming those scenes than they were the emotional ones. \u201cFor me, it doesn\u2019t feel spicy at all,\u201d Storrie has said. \u201cLike, that\u2019s me and my best friend.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n The piece goes on to highlight Storrie and Williams’s on- and off-screen chemistry as the driving force behind this cultural phenomenon, especially in the way they can be both physically and emotionally comfortable and open with each other for public consumption,, both on the show and in real life.<\/p>\n Their press tour-turned-cultural moment has provided fans extensive opportunity to see and swoon over the pair laughing, teasing, dancing, petting, grabbing and declaring each other soulmates, or at least cosmically linked. \u201cWe\u2019re both pretty tactile people in terms of love languages and how you express yourself,\u201d Storrie has said. The two acquired matching \u201csex sells\u201d tattoos after filming wrapped, which they\u2019ve flashed in interviews; and earlier this month, Williams crashed with Storrie while in L.A. to promote the show at bars and malls and fancy parties.<\/i><\/p>\n Toggling between the show and the press tour has been a joyful respite from so much ugliness in the world. We need it. Maybe we even deserve it.<\/i><\/p>\n
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