Daniel Diemer has joined Heated Rivalry Season 2 and will play Ryan Price. Shaheen Jafargholi is also in the cast as Fabian Salah, adding two new roles to a season that is still set to arrive in spring 2027 in the United States.
Rachel Reid’s world expands
Season 2 is expected on HBO Max in the spring of 2027 in the United States, and the cast list is filling out long before viewers see the first episode. Diemer previously starred in The Half of It and Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, while Jafargholi has credits in HBO and Sky’s War and Paramount+’s The Agency.
Jacob Tierney, the series creator, writer and director, said, “Fabian and Ryan each bring a distinctive energy to the world Rachel Reid has created. They are bold, complicated, and deeply compelling characters and finding actors who could really take on all of those different sides was so important to us.” That kind of casting note usually signals a role pair built to carry more than plot mechanics; it is a sign the production is treating these additions as central, not decorative.
Heated Rivalry Season 2 cast grows
The season already includes Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Justice Smith, Charlie Gillespie, Emily Hampshire, Edvin Ryding, Robert Naylor, Sabrina Jalees and Priyanka. With Diemer and Jafargholi now added, the roster keeps expanding around a project that Bell Media’s Crave commissioned with the participation of the Canada Media Fund.
Tierney also said, “Daniel and Shaheen bring such confidence and emotional honesty to the roles. We can't wait for audiences to see what they do with Fabian and Ryan and how they make these characters their own.” For a title distributed internationally by Sphere Abacus, and available in more than 130 countries, that is the kind of early cast signal that helps define how the season will be sold across markets before it ever reaches HBO Max.
HBO Max spring 2027
The spring 2027 timing leaves a wide runway for more casting, marketing and release details, but this is the point where the season’s identity starts to harden. Fans of Heated Rivalry now know who is playing Ryan Price and Fabian Salah, and the next thing to watch is how much more of the season’s lineup gets revealed before the U.S. premiere window arrives.
