Connor Storrie is making it clear he’s the master of accents in his first teaser for Saturday Night Live.
In the video released by SNL, the 26-year-old is seated across from Marcello Hernández and Ashley Padilla when Hernández mentions how great Storrie’s Russian accent was in Heated Rivalry. “I actually do all kinds of accents,” Storrie bashfully tells the cast members, causing James Austin Johnson to challenge the actor to an accent duel.
Hernández and Padilla call out a slew of accents for Storrie and Johnson to showcase, with the Heated Rivalry actor trying out his German, French, “bad” Shakespeare, Shrek, and of course, Russian accents. “When you get to hell, tell them Rozanov sent you,” Storrie says in the trailer, a callback to his Heated Rivalry character, Russian hockey player Ilya Rozanov. The duel ends with Storrie excitedly claiming his victory and Johnson “dying” from the duel.
Storrie is set to make his SNL debut on Saturday (Feb. 28) alongside musical guest Mumford & Sons. The hosting gig, announced last month, is the latest in a long string of appearances for Storrie and his co-star Hudson Williams since the queer Canadian hockey drama took off at the end of 2025. Last month, Storrie, who has signed with CAA, and Williams served as torchbearers ahead of the 2026 Olympic Games and presented at the Golden Globes.
The actor has is in talks to join the ensemble cast of Molly Gordon and Allie Levitan’s A24 comedy Peaked. If the deal makes, Peaked will mark the first post-Heated Rivalry role for Storrie. Levitan is also a writer on SNL.
Heated Rivalry, hailing from Canadian streamer Crave and airing on HBO Max in the U.S., centers on a fictional hockey universe based on books by Rachel Reid. The show focuses on two rival professional players — Canada-born Shane Hollander (Williams) of the fictitious Montreal Metros and Russia-born Ilya Rozanov (Storrie) of the fictitious Boston Raiders — as they navigate a near-decade-long situationship-turned-relationship.
Crave renewed Heated Rivalry for a second season, and HBO Max confirmed it will continue to air the series. Reid announced earlier this year that she’ll be publishing her seventh book in the Game Changers series, which Heated Rivalry and its sequel The Long Game belong to. The book, Unrivaled, will be the next chapter in Shane and Ilya’s story. She announced Tuesday that she’d be pushing the book to a 2027 release date.
