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Heated Rivalry has added five new cast members to its upcoming second season.
Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek), Edvin Ryding (28 Years Later), Robert Naylor, Sabrina Jalees (Search Party) and Priyanka are joining the queer hockey series, Crave announced Thursday morning. The news comes just a week after the key castings of Charlie Gillespie and Justice Smith, who are set to lead season two alongside returning stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie.
The new additions hail from different books throughout Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series, which serves as the source material for the show. Ryding has been cast as Luca Haas, a rookie player on the Ottawa Centaurs, and Naylor will play as Wyatt Hayes, the team’s goalie. Both are teammates of Storrie’s Ilya Rozanov, and eventually Gillespie’s Troy Barrett, and are fan favorites in the book series. Jalees joins as Farah Jalali, who works as the agent to Williams’ Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov in the book series.
Hampshire has been cast as Vanessa and Priyanka has been cast as Tarek, characters in Reid’s third novel in the series, Tough Guy. The pair are best friends of Fabian Salah, an aspiring musician who makes up one half of the main couple in that novel alongside hockey player Ryan Price. The addition of the characters Vanessa and Tarek suggests that Fabian and Ryan’s love story will be featured to some extent in season two, but casting for those characters has yet to be announced.
