Daniel Diemer and Shaheen Jafargholi are the latest pair to join Heated Rivalry Season 2.
Diemer (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) will star as Ryan Price and Jafargholi (War) as Fabian Salah. They join Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie in leading roles for the new season, which launches in spring 2027.
Other cast for the second season of the steamy LGBTQIA drama, which comes from Canadian streamer Crave and is for HBO in the U.S., include Emily Hampshire, Edvin Ryding, Robert Naylor and Sabrina Jalees.
“Fabian and Ryan each bring a distinctive energy to the world Rachel Reid has created,” said Heated Rivalry co-creators Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady from Accent Aigu Entertainment. “They are bold, complicated, and deeply compelling characters, and finding actors who could really take on all of those different sides was so important to us.
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“Daniel and Shaheen bring such confidence and emotional honesty to the roles. We can’t wait for audiences to see what they do with Fabian and Ryan and how they make these characters their own.”
Following the breakout success of Heated Rivalry Season 1, which became HBO’s highest-ratings acquisition in its history, Bell Media’s Crave ordered a second, with the participation of the Canada Media Fund (CMF). Accent Aigu’s Tierney is writer, director, and executive producer, with Brady and Jayme Alter Wilson also serving as executive producers. Lori Fischburg and Liane Cunje are producers, with Heated Rivalry book author Rachel Reid as consulting producer. Mike Goldbach serves as co-writer on Season 2.
Bell’s Sphere Abacus distributes the series internationally, and has shopped it around the world.
Diemer is repped by Atlas Artists, Nuance Management, Gersh Agency, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman. Jafargholi is repped by Simon Grant Jones.
