Everyone’s buzzing about gay hockey TV series Heated Rivalry, and all of the steamy sex scenes.
Creator Jacob Tierney recently spoke out about the passion between leads Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, and how they kept the action exciting.
In a new conversation, Jacob went into detail about mapping out the sex in the show across six episodes.
Keep reading to find out more…
“I just integrated the sex into the storytelling. It’s just part of how their relationship develops; these are two people who spend years meeting up three, four times a year and f–king,” he told Queerty.
“They don’t talk a lot, and even when they do talk, it’s a lot of posturing and playing. So when they are actually communicating honestly it’s when they’re f–king. And so that’s part of the language of communication and storytelling.”
“What we tried to do as a group, as a collective, was to make sure that every sex scene—we’re thrilled to be making smut, and we want it to be titillating, but we also want to be making sure that we’re pushing this relationship forward, because otherwise that gets boring. There’s lots of ways for people to watch sex, god knows. But what you want to watch is progression and intimacy and something to develop between people,” he continued to explain.
“So the sex scenes were heavily scripted and really taken from the book, but they’re all very different because they’re at different points in their own relationships to their sexuality, in their relationships with each other, and in their relationships to what’s going on in the rest of their lives. Hopefully that’s what resonates and feels honest about it: That it feels closer to real sex because it’s human and it’s about watching two people really figure each other out.”
For more, head to Queerty.
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