{"id":826217,"date":"2026-07-26T00:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:43:12","slug":"hudson-williams-is-scary-hot-in-yaga-reimagining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826217\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Williams Is “Scary Hot” In ‘Yaga’ Reimagining"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThis ain\u2019t your mama\u2019s Baba Yaga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a Saturday panel at San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>, AMC+ and Crave<\/a> debuted a new trailer that highlighted a wickedly dark and feminist slant to the tale of the Slavic witch Baba Yaga.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on the play by Kat Sandler<\/a>, who serves as writer and showrunner, Yaga reimages the witch, who is known to live in a hut on chicken legs and potentially is a murderous seductress or powerful enchantress, depending on the author of the tale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Comic-Con 2026 Photos: Best Of Panels, Activations, Cosplay & Convention Floor<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIn Sandler\u2019s version, Yaga is a contemporary mystery thriller that follows Rapp (Noah Reid<\/a>), a private investigator who arrives in a small coastal town to investigate the disappearance of a young heir to a powerful fishery, Henry Park (Hudson Williams<\/a>). He finds himself at odds with an apprehensive local detective, Carson (Clark Backo), a charismatic university professor with a taste for younger men; Katherine (Carrie-Ann Moss<\/a>); and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret lives and ancient magic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer started with a voiceover from Moss\u2019 Katherine, explaining the myth of Baba Yaga in a luxurious dimly lit living room across from a slightly moist and a little horny Henry. \u201cThere are versions of her all over the world. Sometimes she\u2019s an ugly old witch. She lives in a [dilapidated] house on chicken feet. Sometimes she\u2019s a wise woman, an enchantress, a healer. Sometimes she helps a hero on his quest. Sometimes she tests him. Sometimes she kills them. Sometimes she eats them. Sometimes she f*cks them. But, she always has a name.\u201d Katherine says seductively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first trailer for \u2018YAGA\u2019 has been released.<\/p>\n

Starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo, and Hudson Williams.<\/p>\n

Premiering this October on Crave. https:\/\/t.co\/qFFDydGLi8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) July 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThen in a series of quick cuts, the series\u2019 characters, especially Williams, are caught in compromising x-rated and dangerous positions from lustful thrusts and sweaty threesomes to blood sacrifice and errant chicken feathers revealing an old, haggard witch. The last frame revealed a release of October 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs soon as the steamy trailer was over, Reid quipped: \u201c[Hudson] cannot keep his hands off himself. I mean, I don\u2019t blame him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams, who could not be at the panel in person, addressed the audience in a pre-recorded video where he teased that the show was \u201ca blast and a wild one to film.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tConfirming his co-star, Reid stressed William\u2019s role is \u201ca wild performance that is scary hot,\u201d adding: \u201cI think anyone who knows Hudson\u2019s work from Heated Rivalry is in for an interesting ride. You\u2019ll get to know a different side of Hudson\u2019s actor league capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoss, who also could not attend in person, shared well wishes for all that wanted to watch the series when it debuts in the Fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOther surprises at panel also included another clip that featured Backo\u2019s Carson and Detective Rapp meeting each other the first time upon being called to seemingly investigate a person seen burning on a makeshift pyre in the woods. The clip also featured another haunting voiceover from Yaga explaining the mystery that shrouds her lore, alluding perhaps to the show\u2019s mission to dismantle what we know about the witch. \u201cYou say I\u2019m wicked as the night but wise and powerful as the sea. You say I eat naughty children and their bones. You say I\u2019m ugly and lonely and that no one will love me,\u201d Yaga cries in the trailer. \u201cNo one will love me. Who will love such a beast, such a witch as I am.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSandler explained that the show was \u201ca feminist revenge-tinged reimagining of the myth that is sexy, propulsive, vicious and scary.\u201d As to why she baked the dark fairytale into that of a detective narrative, Sandler added: \u201cI think the detective mystery element of it is a really big piece of it. And it comes so much from a pastiche of all of the stuff that I have loved my whole life and that we kind of pulled out of our childhoods like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella, Grimm Fairytales. But it\u2019s also that the theme of witches is so aligned with [bad behavior and darkness]. So, I think a feminist bent is good for right now, and that maybe we\u2019ve been burning the wrong witches for centuries, and this show is about what would happen if a witch survived long enough to hunt back and tell her own story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYaga is produced by Blink49 Studios and Front Street Pictures in partnership with Crave, with David Frazee and Rachel Talalay the co-directors. The series is executive produced by Mackenzie Donaldson, Andrew Miller and Moss and produced by Charles Cooper. The series is distributed globally by Sphere Abacus, a Bell Media company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This ain\u2019t your mama\u2019s Baba Yaga. During a Saturday panel at San Diego Comic-Con, AMC+ and Crave debuted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,288702,17878,34742,75,140290,288703,119167,195265],"class_list":["post-826217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carrie-ann-moss","tag-comic-con","tag-crave","tag-entertainment","tag-hudson-williams","tag-kat-sandler","tag-noah-reid","tag-yaga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}