Hudson Williams arrives at the 83rd Golden Globes in Beverly Hills in January.Jordan Strauss/The Canadian Press
Heated Rivalry breakout Hudson Williams is bouncing from hockey romance to folklore fable on the off-season.
Crave says the British Columbia-born actor will star in the new drama Yaga, based on the Baba Yaga myth, in his first TV project since Heated Rivalry debuted last year.
He’s due to star alongside Carrie-Anne Moss, best known for her role in The Matrix, Noah Reid from Schitt’s Creek and Clark Backo of Letterkenny.
The series is based on the hit play by Kat Sandler, which reimagines the Slavic myth of a child-eating witch who lives in a hut made of chicken bones as a small-town mystery thriller with a compelling female anti-hero.
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Williams will portray Henry Park, the heir to a powerful fishery who has disappeared, while Reid will play Rapp, a detective who’s come to town to solve the mystery.
Moss plays Katherine, who Crave describes as “a charismatic university professor with a taste for younger men.”
Sandler is writer and showrunner on the half-hour drama series, which is currently filming its eight-episode first season.
There’s no word on when it will debut.