Although some Heated Rivalry fans are cross over the show’s ineligibility at US awards shows, one star doesn’t think the Canadian series could have been made in Hollywood.
François Arnaud, who stars in the Crave/HBO Max series as gay hockey player Scott Hunter, recently explained how the show is “a huge lesson” for the industry after creator Jacob Tierney fought to adapt Rachel Reid‘s Game Changer books in his vision.
“I don’t think this show could’ve been made in the US,” he said on CBS Mornings. “It was set up at a big streamer before, and they had so many notes and so many thoughts about what that show could be that Jacob decided to leave them and get it made in Canada, where it was—granted, a much smaller budget—but he was like, ‘I can do the show I want to make.