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Heated Rivalry has cast more key roles from its upcoming second season, adding Kevin Zegers, Paul Gross and Milla Jovovich.
Zegers will play Coach Weibe, the head coach of Ottawa’s professional team, where main character Ilya Rozanov, played by Connor Storrie, will play during season two. Jovovich joins as Dr. Galina Molchalin, a therapist that Ilya sees during the events of Rachel Reid‘s novel The Long Game, which is the main source material for the second season. Gross will play the professional hockey league’s commissioner Roger Crowell.
Season one of the award-winning show was adapted from the second novel in the Game Changers series, Heated Rivalry, which focuses on the ever-complicated situationship between Shane Holland, played by Hudson Williams, and Ilya, who are generational talents in the world of professional hockey and sworn on-ice rivals. The first novel of Reid’s book series, Game Changers, centered on François Arnaud’s character Scott Hunter and Robbie G.K.’s character Kip Grady and served as secondary material for the first season.
Season two of Heated Rivalry will be adapted from Reid’s sixth novel in the series, The Long Game, which continues Shane and Ilya’s story. The novel finds the hockey players now in a committed relationship with one another and learning how to build a life together while hiding their true feelings for one another in public.
