all the rumours are true yeah!!

Garrett hates my singing but it's okay because he loves me. Yeah, I do. I love you, Wellsy.

Because Ilya is his mother’s son.

Opening up about Irina is like peeling back flesh to expose bone. It’s admitting his own fears. He sees so much of his mother in himself, and it terrifies him.

And this moment is Ilya finally giving Shane that honesty he asked for — to tell him about the one person in his family who he loved and loved him back — but it’s also a warning with a hidden plea.

"I have one of my best friends for life right beside me through it all, which is already a luxury that a lot of actors don't get. I'm sure I would've probably had a smaller appetite for the amount of stuff we're doing if I didn't have him through this." - Hudson Williams on Connor Storrie

"Me and Hudson are best friends, and I think it's one of those connections where the moment you talk, you just kind of click." - Connor Storrie on Hudson Williams

I'm sorry but this is not the same person. It's almost uncanny how much Connor Storrie disappears into Ilya Rozanov. I know much has been said about the accent, the quick language acquisition. But to me what's even more fascinating is the way everything about the way he looks changes for the role - his facial expressions, the way he hold himself, all of those little micro expressions. Because cultural differences are not just in the language. A masterclass really, that whole performance. Looking forward to following his long and successful acting career.

Connor: "He was just here for a week and stayed at my place. It’s really enlightening about the culture of how men and man-on-man affection is received because you don’t see that a lot. It’s taboo for men to be friends and grab each other a certain way or hold hands. And me and Hudson being in such a sexual circumstance with one another, it’s really interesting to watch people sexualize our very amicable signs of affection. That just shows where the culture is still at in a way like, “Oh, these two men…” Just because we’re really comfortable with each other and we love each other, we’ve been through the craziest experience together, we’re on this crazy rollercoaster together, if I have my hand on his leg as we’re sitting down doing a press thing because he’s my best buddy and I love him, and we have that level of comfort. It’s just interesting that that instantly gets turned into, “They’re more than friends.”"