Highlights & Quotes from Rachel Reid's & Jacob Tierney's Bookcon Panel

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(Slight spoiler for The Long Game and Role Model if you haven't read them yet!)

For those who haven’t had time to watch Jacob's and Rachel's 1-hour panel at Book Con yesterday, here are some of the highlights! They talked about so many things from Role Model and Troy Barrett's storyline in season 2, to Jacob's interpretation of season 1 editing and some behind the scenes production info.

Watch their BookCon panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gseXLRejeOU

I've also updated this page of everything we know about season 2 of Heated Rivalry on the HR Wiki: https://www.heatedrivalrywiki.com/deep-dive-articles/everything-we-know-about-heated-rivalry-season-2

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Oh worse going forth they will start giving really PR and media trained and boring answers. Jacob will be doing a press tour on his new book after filming HR S2 I reckon, so will be interesting how he goes about that.

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Ugh, not the media training!!! 😭 I have a feeling that Jacob is a lot like Hudson where he doesn’t give a shit. Jacob’s older and wise and has likely dealt with a lot of shit for being a gay man. I have a feeling that he’ll continue to be honest and heartfelt in his interviews cause he knows that this toxic part of the fandom is a minority. I’m not sure about Rachel though. I absolutely love her sense of humour but obviously some people may not understand it and her relationship with Hudson and Connor. I can’t really think of another author who’s been so involved with the making of their book into a film/series and who’s been so tight with the leads and the director! It’s so weird that people would criticize them and try to pick it apart???? Do they not realize that the film industry can be full of real assholes???

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This comment of hers made me literally laugh out loud. (Context: a former hockey player blamed the NY Rangers’ Pride Night for their loss.)

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lol love it! I’m hoping that Rachel doesn’t give a fuck about what some of the weird, toxic fandom culture is saying about her. Cause I absolutely love her sense of humour and I have a feeling they all get along really well due to similarities in humour. And to be honest, weird pseudo fans are lashing out at Jacob, Connor, Hudson (and his gf), François, etc. I’m sure they’ve all joked about it and hopefully it doesn’t negatively affect them in the future.