Milla Jovovich and Kevin Zegers join Heated Rivalry season 2

A new Heated Rivalry season two casting includes the biggest celebrity names to date.

With the show’s second season now in production, a trio of actors have joined the cast. The new names will be playing some of the book’s most loved – and most detested – characters.

They’ll be joining leads Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie in the wildly popular gay ice hockey drama that centres on the pair’s secret love affair on the ice.

Milla Jovovich will be joining the stacked cast as Dr Galina Molchalina, a Russian-speaking psychologist who becomes Ilya’s (Storrie) therapist. Make sure you have tissues to hand, as scenes between Galina and Ilya are some of the most emotional in the book.

You’ll recognise Jovovich from Resident Evil and The Fifth Element fame, and her time as a supermodel, of course.

Other names joining the show include Kevin Zegers, who will play the beloved Coach Wiebe. Zegers has previously starred in The Madison, Transamerica and Gossip Girl. 

Zegers’ role as Coach Wiebe will be essential to the upcoming season. The character is Ilya’s coach on the Ottawa Centaurs. In the books, Ilya moves from the Boston Raiders to the Centaurs in order to be closer to Shane (Williams).

Milla Jovovich, Kevin Zegers and Paul Gross join.

The final addition to the cast is Paul Gross as Commissioner Roger Crowell. Fans have been anticipating the casting of this character as it’s a contentious one. 

Gross has starred in Broadway’s Good Night, and Good Luck alongside the miniseries Tales of the City.

The commissioner, who heads the National Hockey League, is the biggest villain in the romance books. He has a poor track record of supporting queer ice hockey players. Also, a scene between him, Shane, and Ilya is one of the more explosive revelations for the couple.

Furthermore, it’s obviously been confirmed that Williams and Storrie will be returning with a number of fellow actors from season one.

François Arnaud and Robbie G.K., as gay couple Scott Hunter and Kip Grady, will return.

Sophie Nélisse and Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova are back as Shane and Ilya’s friends. Christina Chang and Dylan Walsh return as Shane’s parents, Callan Potter and Benjamin Roy as Shane’s Montreal teammates and Kamilla Kowal as Hayden’s wife.

Season two is set to draw mostly from Rachel Reid’s The Long Game, while also weaving in elements from Role Model and Tough Guy. 

Other newcomers include Justice Smith as Harris Drover, Charlie Gillespie as Troy Barrett, Daniel Diemer as Ryan Price, Shaheen Jafargholi as Fabian Salah, Emily Hampshire as Vanessa, Edvin Ryding as Luca Haas, Robert Naylor as Wyatt Hayes, Priyanka as Tarek, and Sabrina Jalees as Farah.

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