"Appearing on the red carpet with the Canadian actor Hudson Williams, star of the hit HBO ice hockey drama Heated Rivalry, Carney was in a playful mood. Williams gave Carney a fleece adorned with maple leaves that appears on the show, and as they stood side by side posing for the cameras Carney said: Do the leg thing. Williams did the leg thing with the prime minister. Both men grinned widely."
"In a speech later at the event, in which he called Hudson his new best friend, Carney said studios south of the border wanted to tone down the content of Heated Rivalry. What is the point of that? he said, to laughs in the audience. The show tells the story of two closeted ice hockey rivals who fall heavily in lust. Carney said Heated Rivalry could only be made in Canada, a country that celebrates what makes us different."
"Women are feral for Heated Rivalry. What does that say about men? Carney said of the two main characters in the show: They're also two young men who are terrified of being their fullest selves. And we live in an increasingly dangerous, divided and intolerant world and the hard-fought rights of the 2SLGBTQI+ community are under threat."
Mark Carney attended a Davos speech and later appeared at a gala in Ottawa promoting the Canadian series Heated Rivalry. Carney posed on the red carpet with Hudson Williams, received a maple-leaf fleece from him, and playfully told Williams to "Do the leg thing." In his gala remarks Carney said U.S. studios wanted to tone down the show's content and argued the program could only be made in Canada. He described the protagonists as young men afraid to be their fullest selves and warned that 2SLGBTQI+ rights face growing threats, while joking about having greenlit funding.
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