Watch Connor Storrie in His First ‘SNL’ Teaser
Connor Storrie is making it clear he is the grasp of accents in his first teaser for Saturday Night Live.
In the video launched by SNLthe 26-year-old is seated throughout from Marcello Hernández and Ashley Padilla when Hernández mentions how nice Storrie’s Russian accent was in Heated Rivalry. “I actually do all kinds of accents,” Storrie bashfully tells the solid members, inflicting James Austin Johnson to problem the actor to an accent duel.
Hernández and Padilla name out a slew of accents for Storrie and Johnson to showcase, with the Heated Rivalry actor making an attempt out his German, French, “bad” Shakespeare, Shrek, and naturally, 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 participant Ilya Rozanov. The duel ends with Storrie excitedly claiming his victory and Johnson “dying” from the duel.
Storrie is ready to make his SNL debut on Saturday (Feb. 28) alongside musical visitor Mumford & Sons. The internet hosting gig, announced last monthis the newest in an extended string of appearances for Storrie and his co-star Hudson Williams because the queer Canadian hockey drama took off on the finish of 2025. Last month, Storrie, who has signed with CAA, and Williams served as torchbearers forward of the 2026 Olympic Games and introduced on the Golden Globes.
The actor has is in talks to hitch the ensemble solid of Molly Gordon and Allie Levitan’s A24 comedy Peaked. If the deal makes, Peaked will mark the primary post-Heated Rivalry function for Storrie. Levitan can also be a author on SNL.
Heated Rivalryhailing from Canadian streamer Crave and airing on HBO Max in the US, facilities on a fictional hockey universe based mostly on books by Rachel Reid. The present focuses on two rival skilled gamers — Canada-born Shane Hollander (Williams) of the fictional Montreal Metros and Russia-born Ilya Rozanov (Storrie) of the fictional Boston Raiders — as they navigate a near-decade-long situationship-turned-relationship.
Crave renewed Heated Rivalry for a second seasonand HBO Max confirmed it’ll proceed to air the sequence. Reid announced earlier this year that she’ll be publishing her seventh ebook in the Game Changers sequence, which Heated Rivalry and its sequel The Long Game belong to. The ebook, Unrivaledwould be the subsequent chapter in Shane and Ilya’s story. She announced Tuesday that she’d be pushing the ebook to a 2027 launch date.
