Heated Rivalry is coming out this week and the creator is dishing on the book to screen adaptation!

Letterkenny and Shoresy ‘s Jacob Tierney created the upcoming series, which he also wrote and directs, based on the novel by Rachel Reid .

Ahead of the show’s debut this Friday (November 28) on Crave in Canada and HBO Max in the US and Australia, Jacob dished on the casting process that led to Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams playing the lead characters.

“There was a lot of hesitation. A lot of people didn’t want to read for it,” he recalled to Teen Vogue about the casting process. The roles required a certain physique, as well as the need to be comfortable with a lot of nudity and intimacy as there are three sex scenes in every episode.

After making it to the f

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