{"id":248761,"date":"2026-06-26T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/joel-kim-booster-hollywood-took-the-wrong-message-from-heated-rivalry-it-wasnt-the-hockey\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:04:42","slug":"joel-kim-booster-hollywood-took-the-wrong-message-from-heated-rivalry-it-wasnt-the-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/joel-kim-booster-hollywood-took-the-wrong-message-from-heated-rivalry-it-wasnt-the-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Kim Booster: Hollywood took the wrong message from &#8216;Heated Rivalry&#8217;, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the hockey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<blockquote lj-screenable=\"social:newinsta:parse\" class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"data-instgrm-captioned\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DaC5cWYkqlP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DaC5cWYkqlP<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actor and comedian <b>Joel Kim Booster<\/b> recently spoke with <i>The Provincetown Independent<\/i>, leveling a critique at the lessons Hollywood has seemed to learn from the success of <i><b>Heated Rivalry<\/b><\/i> and the chilling effect the wave of harassment coming from the White House has had on artists:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;People are really frightened and risk-averse right now because of this administration and what we\u2019ve seen in the way of censorship or retaliation,&#8217; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Booster calls out the industry\u2019s backpedaling on shows that put queerness center stage \u2014 despite important successes like <i>Heated Rivalry<\/i>, in which love between two elite players shifts the hypermasculine world of hockey. &#8216;<b>There are now six hockey shows in development, none of them gay<\/b>, and it\u2019s like, guys, I think it wasn\u2019t the hockey that was the big issue.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><br \/><i>ONTD, what queer romance would you like to see adapted for TV\/film?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DaC5cWYkqlP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/provincetownindependent.org\/arts-minds\/2026\/06\/24\/on-the-way-to-a-crossroads-joel-kim-booster-comes-to-provincetown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132522462.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DaC5cWYkqlP Actor and comedian Joel Kim Booster recently spoke with The Provincetown Independent, leveling a critique at the lessons Hollywood has seemed to learn from the success of Heated Rivalry and the chilling effect the wave of harassment coming from the White House has had on artists: &#8220;&#8216;People are really frightened and risk-averse right now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}