Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams details the…
Hudson Williams’ outdated life melted away in a flash.
The actor, 24, shortly shot to stardom following the November premiere of the hockey drama “Heated Rivalry.”
Since the Crave collection, which follows rival skilled hockey gamers in a secret romance, has aired, Williams and his co-stars Connor Storrie and François Arnaud have had a whirlwind three months.
Hudson Williams attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards. FilmMagic
Hudson Williams is seen during the Milan Fashion Week. Getty Images
Williams made his late-night US debut on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Jan. 7. That same day, Storrie, 25, and “Abbott Elementary” star Janelle James revealed the nominees for the thirty second Annual Actor Awards (previously the SAG Awards).
The co-stars went on to reunite to current together at the Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
After the star-studded affair, Storrie jetted off to New York to seem on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Williams, for his half, made a splash as he attended Milan Fashion Week.
Gaining such a high degree of notoriety has come with its struggles.
Hudson Williams and Ricky Martin in Milan. ricky_martin/Instagram
“It doesn’t feel like anything you could prepare for. It’s a different existence now, not based on worth or whatever quality of human. But it’s a different life,” Williams expressed while on the “Shut Up Evan” podcast on Tuesday.
The Canadian star went on to evaluate his forged’s degree of success to that of the Beatles when they first rose to fame.
“And when you see these people, like when you see the Beatles, when you see BTS, there’s an element of ‘that’s not another human that’s a celebrity,’” he elaborated, “which exists in this weird definition that is very abstract. I thought I could empathize with it, but I couldn’t fully feel what they were going through until now. And now it’s just brought this wave of sympathy because it’s not easy.”
When Williams made his debut on “The Tonight Show” earlier this month, followers took to social media to share footage of themselves camped out in a single day for the probability to see him.
Williams told podcast host Evan Ross Katz that while he’s grateful for the assist, it’s overwhelming to have so many eyes on him.
“Although it feels good that people admire your work, it’s — we can go to pockets of places I never thought we would be found and we’re still pulled aside for a photo,” he explained. “You have to look nice because you can’t just roll out in sweatpants, which I used to always do, and just look awful. There’s all these things that are just sort of exhausting.”
Willams, who labored as a server at the Spaghetti Factory in Canada before touchdown his breakout position, needs “to just have a sort of semblance of privacy,” as he adapts to the “weird balance” that comes with large fame.
“I can’t possibly sign everyone’s thing, talk to everyone, and I can’t steal away ’cause then also there’s an element of selfishness,” Williams famous.
“If I were to stay and sign everything, the security — they have other jobs to do,” he continued. “They have to take other people into the building, they’ve to get off the clock. My publicist wants to get someplace. My brokers need to get someplace. It can grow to be a egocentric act, not a beneficiant one, to [try] and meet everybody. So it’s a bizarre steadiness, and there’s so a lot minutia that I never may probably think about exists in this world of superstar.’
Despite the downsides, Williams is grateful for how “Heated Rivalry” took off.
Hudson Williams on “The Tonight Show.” Todd Owyoung/NBC
“It’s hard to complain about because for a long time I’ve been a cliché of an actor, you know, struggling server, paycheck to paycheck, just desperate for any role, let alone a good one,” he said. “I was just talking with one of my agents yesterday, and she said, Connor and I have had to learn what a lot of actors get in 5 years in like 30 days.”
Series creator Jacob Tierney told Entertainment Weekly in December: “I don’t know what I expected, but it was not this. It’s so great. I’m very grateful and I’m very thrilled. In terms of engagement, if I’m being honest, I try not to engage that much and kind of let this happen. Hopefully the more interesting conversations about the show will happen once it’s all aired and you can see what it was doing from the beginning.”
Hudson Williams walks the runway at the Dsquared2 fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week – Menswear Fall/Winter 2026-2027 on January 16, 2026. WireImage
Arnaud, 40, meanwhile, has also opened up about the tougher aspect of fame.
“I’m struggling to sleep, actually. It’s a lot,” he confessed to the outlet that same month. “I have to like delete my Instagram. It’s just too much for me.”
Storrie, meanwhile, has had the assist of his household since he started appearing.
“When I said I needed to be in films, they had been like, ‘Yeah, go do it!’” he told Craig Melvin while on “Today” earlier this month. “I think it’s in all probability fairly surreal for them to watch issues like this occur.”
Storrie also admitted his dad hasn’t seen “Heated Rivalry” just yet.
“And I’m not asking him to see it,” he quipped. “I don’t think he needs to see it if he doesn’t want to.”
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