SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about Episode 4 of “ Heated Rivalry ,” now streaming on HBO Max .

When Connor Storrie was filming his self-tape for “Heated Rivalry,” he decided he had to show off his body.

“I was like, ‘If we’re doing a show that heavily involves sex,’” he tells me via Zoom video from his Los Angeles-area home. “So I took off my shirt, even though it didn’t say that I had my shirt off the entire time because I was like, ‘If we’re doing that, you all have to see what these people look like naked.’”

It worked.

Storrie landed the part of Ilya Rozanov, a Russian hockey star having a hot and steamy years-long off-rink affair with his Canadian counterpart, Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams). When the first two episodes dropped over Thanksgiving weekend on

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