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HEATED RIVALRY 1.01 "Rookies" 1.06 "The Cottage"
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When Ilya got his agent to approach Ottawa, he likely asked them to do a Labour Market Impact Assessment in order for him to get Canadian permanent residency. Which puts you on a path to Canadian citizenship after several years. A temporary foreign worker has no path to citizenship.
Ilya is a generational talent. Ottawa could write in the LMIA that no Canadian hockey player available at the time was as good as him. And IRCC (Inmigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) would likely agree. The other best player in Ilya’s position is Shane. Who already has a contract with Montreal and thus isn’t available to Ottawa.
LMIAs with permanent residency (thus, leading to citizenship) are almost as rare as unicorns, but they do happen occasionally. My dentist is an American whose family moved to Vancouver during the first Trump administration. Her husband was a STEM professor at an Ivy League university, doing cutting edge research.
The University of British Columbia (UBC) argued in their LMIA for him that this American researcher was someone whose job simply couldn’t be filled by a Canadian. His job was simply too specialized. And it worked. the paperwork took a long time to come through, but she, her husband, and their kids were given permanent residency so he could take the UBC job. And I believe they are now citizens.
Whatever contract Ilya negotiated with Ottawa would’ve been contingent on him becoming a permanent resident, not just a temporary foreign worker with no path to citizenship. Ottawa would have lobbied IRCC like hell to get him PR.
Anyway, IRCC doesn’t advertise that you can get PR through an LMIA. There are far too many corrupt immigration consultants out there who convince desperate would-be immigrants out there to bribe them for it. And of course, the paperwork they get is fake. Because people don’t understand that getting an LMIA approved with PR is only for very exceptional cases. Usually an LMIA is only for a temporary foreign worker permit. And that has no path to citizenship.
But the real thing does happen from time to time. IRCC would approve permanent residency for a world-class hockey player willing to move to a thoroughly mediocre Canadian team. There would be paperwork and it would take a while, but they’d do it.
Explanatory note:
The way Canadian immigration law works, you can’t move to Canada for a specific job and get permanent residency that way. You get PR, you move to Canada, and then you look for a job here. The LMIA with PR is very rare and only for special cases. When they basically need to lure someone to Canada.
"when we were shooting [this scene], i wasn't convinced that i was going to use what hudson was doing [here]. i thought it might be too much. he had a big reaction, which is the interesting for hudson because he's a very internal actor, especially when he's playing shane. i didn't say anything. i just kinda watched it, and i was like 'this is interesting.' i think i can cut around this and figure out how to get what i want out of this scene."
"then when i got to the editing room and my editor put the scene together, she loved what he had done. and i looked it at again with new eyes and i was like 'oh! i actually love this too.' and i'm so glad i didn't insist on some idea that i had in my head because what he brought to the table was more interesting. it was surprising and it was full of life. it wasn't part of some insane jigsaw plan that i had in my head that needs to fit together or [else] everything falls a part. i do believe that film and tv is an ensemble process. as soon as you invite other talents in—to ask these brilliant people to work with you—what am they doing here if i'm not going to listen to them or incorporate their ideas or what makes them so talented and why i wanted to work with them in the first place?" — jacob tierney on hudson's portrayal of shane and his collaborative process
only one week since the cottage and i miss them dearly
via: heatedrivalrycrave [tiktok]
connor carb loading (actually eating the spaghetti)
connor: "people in movies never eat the food in front of them." jacob: "no, because you have to eat it 78 times. of course not. why would you fucking eat it? you're going to have to keep eating this fucking spaghetti." connor: *shrugs* "i don't mind."
"i couldn't actually believed how much spaghetti he consumed. i was like 'bravo.'"
— jacob tierney [on what chaos! podcast]
improvised smacking
🔗: https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/heated-rivalry-episode-6-jacob-tierney-brendan-brady-interview/
"that was improv. yeah, to a degree. connor and i were kind of goofing off in the makeup trailer, which was a cottage that was a two-minute drive away from that cottage, getting ready. i was preparing my monologue the whole morning. i’m prepping it, working it. then connor, being the great scene partner he is, he was like, 'i’ll be here doing this.' then he did something and we were hitting each other, goofing off. then he’s hitting me, hitting me and he did this slap. i was filming myself on my phone doing this. i was like, 'do that again.' i couldn’t hold in my laughter because it was so brilliant. it’s so funny, and it makes sense for where they’re at in the story. i remember showing that to the intimacy coordinator. she was cackling. she’s like, 'you have to do that.' then jacob was like, 'go for it. go crazy.' the first take was the first time i broke because connor is taking all the liberties. i am shoving him. i’m slapping him back. i’m putting the phone away to get in the gasps and moans. i’m so happy with how that scene turned out."
🔗: https://variety.com/2025/tv/columns/hudson-williams-heated-rivalry-finale-sex-scene-improvised-1236617813/
