Hudson Williams Praises Connor Storrie's 'Great' Butt, Addresses 'Heated Rivalry' Character Shane's 'Oral Fixation'
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie are doing a lot of playful promo for their hot new TV show, Heated Rivalry.
The 24-year-old and 25-year-old co-stars, who play Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, spoke out in a new interview about their relationship, their characters, and America’s reaction to their hot show.
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When asked by Entertainment Weekly about the wildest compliments they’ve gotten, Connor weighed in with praise for his anatomy.
“Well, first of all, my butt has been a big topic of conversation,” Connor said.
“It’s a great butt,” Hudson noted.
“I think I saw someone say that I am ‘America’s a–,’ which I was not expecting that at all. But, yeah, I love it. I’ll take it. Feels good,” Connor continued.
“Some people feel like they were Shane. Some people felt like they were Ilya and they had a Shane. People who reach out and privately disclose something about how they don’t really cry during shows or films, and then they’re finally just a wreck during this one. And we’re only three episodes in. Those ones are just wild to me because, as an actor, as someone who loves stories like these, it’s what you dream of being a part of,” Hudson went on to say.
Connor also reflected on the sex scenes in the show.
“It’s a really interesting experience watching something that is so overtly sexual and has a certain amount of nudity and sex ’cause we did that on set. I don’t know about you [Williams], but when I watch it, I’m like, this is really not that raunchy because it’s me. So there’s not this element of separation, and we were literally doing the actions together. It’s like, I remember doing that, but it’s hard to remind yourself that anyone else who’s seeing this was not there and did not watch this happen.”
“The fans get spontaneity, but we see mechanics. We see technique, rehearsal. We see Chala [Hunter, intimacy coordinator] going, ‘Knee little higher! Knee little lower! Hide your, like, little ballet slipper,’” Hudson went on to say.
“‘Less face! More face!’” Connor added.
“‘More face! More tongue!’ So we’re seeing take 5 and then an edit, and other people are witnessing two people find a sexual language. So that’s an interesting relationship, as well,” Hudson added.
The two also addressed viral videos of the two dancing and stretching with each other on social media.
“Very plainly spoken, me and Hudson are freaks. We’re clowns. We just love to riff and have fun and go crazy, and those were two situations where we were caught off guard doing our thing. The wrap party, that was all improvised. I think we were just putting on a show,” Connor described.
“Also, there might be something else, I think, with we’re both very physical actors and movement is a huge part of it. Even with Shane, it doesn’t look like he’s the most physically expressive, but even then it was a physical choice. I think we both felt locked into our, you know…Like you [Storrie] felt somewhat limited by how Ilya can express himself. I felt very limited by how Shane can move and the fact that we both have the desire just as humans to always move and collaborate and express ourselves freely, it was almost like these movements were a release,” Hudson added.
“When we’re not acting, it’s like we have to get this out of our system. But also, that’s just kind of how we operate. We’re just clowns,” Connor said.
Hudson also said he believes Shane has an “oral fixation.”
“When there was not a straw in my drink, I would ask them to give me one. If I’m texting, I’m putting the thing in my mouth. I’m always putting things in my mouth! And I’ll continue to do that for season…if we get another season. There’ll just be more things in my mouth,” he amusingly said.
Connor also addressed Internet speculation about him, and why he thought he wouldn’t get the role.