Hudson Williams' Friends Reveal Details of 'Heated Rivalry' Watch Party With His Mom

Hudson Williams‘ friends are speaking out!

In a new interview, friends of the 24-year-old Heated Rivalry reflected on his fame, and what he was like before his sudden superstardom – including his jobs waiting tables at an Italian restaurant and working on indie shorts – as well as watching the show with him and his mother.

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One friend who spoke out is Zack Fonzovs, who he met in 2021 when Zack was looking for a lead for one of his shorts.

“I said to him, ‘You’re going to bite off her finger and suck it like it’s the blood of Christ.’ It’s a very profane moment, and he (Williams) just looked at me like he was ready to bite her finger right then and there. After that, I was like, ‘Oh my god. He’s so passionate.’ I could just tell by how willing he was and how hungry he was,” he recalled to USA Today.

“To hear the whole world have opinions of my boy, it’s weird,” he added.

Hudson also directed and co-starred in his own first project, Snow Angel.

“He’s a tremendous, tremendous producer,” Zack said.

Hudson released four of his short films on a YouTube channel.

His Langara College Film Arts’ program coordinator Jonas Quastel called him “fresh-faced lad with a great attitude.”

“He wants to do interesting stuff. He doesn’t want to fall into the pretty boy situation. He wants to do cutting edge things. I see him on the track like Johnny Depp, like Keanu Reeves. I see him doing edgy things and mainstream things.”

Another friend, Mark Masterton, said after Heated Rivalry he returned to Vancouver and “was immediately making more things with us. He never stopped to blink. He was already back into the indie world because he just loves making movies.”

“When you see Hudson in Heated Rivalry, he’s a shy, reserved character in Shane, and a lot of people are seeing him steamy with his clothes off, but it comes as no surprise at all to me…because literally every film project I’ve worked with him, he’s been semi-naked,” he said.

“Of our group of friends, he always seemed like a shining star and he was the one to watch. He just had this raw talent that you knew was going to go the whole way,” Mark also added.

Mark also recalled a Heated Rivalry watch night Hudson had with friends and his mom.

“He wanted to share that moment with us all. I was feeling really awkward, like, ‘Oh my god, I’m so excited to see him, but I really hope it’s good because otherwise…you’re going to have to watch Hudson in the show and pretend it’s good.’ But we didn’t have to do that because it was genuinely awesome,” he told USA Today.

He said that the party attendees all had noisemakers, and each time an explicit scene came on the screen, they’d toot their horns.

One of the friends would also lean over and cover his mom’s eyes!

Mark also talked about how life is now, and maintaining friendship with Hudson.

“Just a few weeks ago, we were out playing pickleball, getting our a–es handed to us by these middle-aged men and nobody had a clue who they were dealing with. I’m obviously cheering him on from afar and letting him know how proud we are, but I’m arranging the next pickleball day, because we need to get our reputation back on.”

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