{"id":673236,"date":"2026-09-05T02:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/673236\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T02:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:28:14","slug":"heated-rivalry-gets-season-2-update-as-resident-evil-star-joins-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/673236\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated Rivalry gets season 2 update as Resident Evil star joins cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milla Jovovich has joined the cast of Heated Rivalry for its second season. The popular ice-hockey romance drama stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams as Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, two rival hockey players whose secret relationship develops into a years-long love story.<\/p>\n

Ahead of its season two debut on HBO Max in spring 2027, the show has been lining up a stellar cast, with previously announced newcomers<\/a> including Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) and Priyanka (Drag Race Canada).<\/p>\n

Joining them for season two are newly announced Kevin Zegers, Paul Gross and Milla Jovovich, with details about their respective roles also being shared. <\/p>\n

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According to Variety<\/a>, Zegers is on board to play Coach Wiebe, while Gross will star as Commissioner Roger Crowell. Jovovich is set to star as Dr Galina Molchalina.<\/p>\n

Returning from season one are Sophie N\u00e9lisse, Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud, Christina Chang, Dylan Walsh, Robbie G K, Callan Potter, Benjamin Roy and Kamilla Kowal.<\/p>\n

New to season two are Justice Smith, Charlie Gillespie, Daniel Diemer, Shaheen Jafargholi, Robert Naylor, Edvin Ryding, and Sabrina Jalees, alongside Hampshire and Priyanka.<\/p>\n

Based on Rachel Reid\u2019s Game Changers book series, season two of Heated Rivalry will take its inspiration from the sixth book in the series The Long Game. <\/p>\n

It will follow Ilya and Shane as they grow closer while navigating the realities of making their relationship public. <\/p>\n

Speaking about season two back in February, showrunner Jacob Tierney told CBS Mornings<\/a> that they were preparing to film in the summer. <\/p>\n

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Related: Heated Rivalry issues plea to fans in statement ahead of highly-anticipated second season<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

He said: “We’re writing it now, we’re getting ready to start shooting this summer. There will be more Heated Rivalry on TVs as soon as humanly possible.”<\/p>\n

On why the show is so popular with audiences, he said: “It’s very romantic, I think that’s what it is. It has the hallmarks and trappings of a real classic romance.<\/p>\n

“Years of yearning and longing; trying to get together and do the right thing for each other and not being able to,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Heated Rivalry<\/a> season one is now streaming on NOW and Sky<\/a> in the UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visit our <\/strong>Streaming Guide<\/strong><\/a> now to see at a glance where you can view ALL your favourite shows and movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy<\/strong> after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milla Jovovich has joined the cast of Heated Rivalry for its second season. The popular ice-hockey romance drama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[150409,341,284552,343,18,117,19,17,201411,342,284551,240005,152521,128],"class_list":["post-673236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-852a8762-4bc0-4952-9f65-b241ac43d57c","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-heated-rivalry-season-2-adds-resident-evil-star-to-cast","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-us-tv","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117216079053890934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}