In a way, it’s a blessing that Connor Storrie couldn’t be nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards due to not being Canadian, because then nobody had to choose between our Heated Rivalry boys. (Well, okay, that’s not entirely true, they nominated Francois Arnaud in lead performance also — but he stayed in the U.S., presumably correctly confident it wasn’t his to win; I don’t know why they didn’t put him in supporting?!?) Hudson Williams deserves recognition for the beauty and subtlety and bottled-up restraint of his take on Shane, but because Ilya is the flashier part and of course there’s that monologue in Episode 5, it might be hard for other upcoming awards shows to resist that. Whatever way it goes, Heated Rivalry reflects the work they BOTH do anyway — one performance doesn’t work without the other. ANYWAY. Yay for Hudson. His speech was really nice, and his partner was in the audience too, which is lovely for them.
In a previous ceremony the day before, for which we do not have photos, Nadine Bhabha got the guest performance award and she wore a WACKADOO OUTFIT made of chains, god bless her. Sophie Nelisse accepted hers for supporting performance in a great black dress (Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova was also nominated); Sophie then won a second last night, the Radius Award for emerging Canadian talent, which tracks, as she’s phenomenal on Yellowjackets). In all, a great period for Heated Rivalry, which swept its categories across both evenings.
