"Oddly enough, almost all the background [actors] were Russian," he explained. "The scene where, after my dad's funeral - spoiler - I'm with my brother, everyone at that table was actually Russian."
"This Russian lady, this older lady, I came back in to reset, and she starts [speaking Russian]," he recalled. "And then I'm like, 'No, I don't... I don't do that.'"
"Then she told the person next to her, she was [speaking in Russian] and then this man was like, 'Oh, she thought you were an actual Russian speaker,'" he said, before clarifying that she assumed "my parents were Russian and I speak Russian at home with a pseudo-American accent."
Connor Storrie portrays Russian-born hockey player Ilya Rozanov on the Crave and HBO Max series Heated Rivalry. While filming scenes set in the character's home country, most of the background actors were Russian. In a funeral reception scene Storrie argued with his older brother and returned to a table of Russian extras. A Russian extra addressed him in her native language and assumed he spoke Russian fluently after hearing his accent. The extra consulted others when he did not understand, concluding his parents were Russian and he spoke Russian at home with a pseudo-American accent. Storrie had no Russian before the role and took intensive lessons and practiced on set.
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