{"id":271896,"date":"2026-01-30T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271896\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:37:07","slug":"do-the-leg-thing-mark-carney-jokes-with-heated-rivalry-star-on-red-carpet-mark-carney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271896\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Do the leg thing\u2019: Mark Carney jokes with Heated Rivalry star on red carpet | Mark Carney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Mark Carney was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, giving global leaders a lesson in realism<\/a>. His powerful speech about the end of the old order and the need for middle powers to unite<\/a> in the face of fractured international norms received a standing ovation.<\/p>\n

The economist and central banker struck a slightly different tone at a gala in Ottawa to promote the Canadian film industry on Thursday evening. Appearing on the red carpet with the Canadian actor Hudson Williams, star of the hit HBO ice hockey drama Heated Rivalry<\/a>, Carney was in a playful mood.<\/p>\n

Williams gave Carney a fleece adorned with maple leaves that appears on the show, and as they stood side by side posing for the cameras Carney said: \u201cDo the leg thing.\u201d Williams did the leg thing with the prime minister. Both men grinned widely.<\/p>\n

Carney shows off his new wardrobe item: a Heated Rivalry fleece. Photograph: Patrick Doyle\/AP<\/p>\n

In a speech later at the event<\/a>, in which he called Hudson his \u201cnew best friend\u201d, Carney said studios \u201csouth of the border\u201d wanted to tone down the content of Heated Rivalry. \u201cWhat is the point of that?\u201d he said, to laughs in the audience. The show tells the story of two closeted ice hockey rivals who fall heavily in lust<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Carney said Heated Rivalry could only be made in Canada<\/a>, a country that \u201ccelebrates what makes us different\u201d.<\/p>\n

Carney said of the two main characters in the show: \u201cThey\u2019re also two young men who are terrified of being their fullest selves. And we live in an increasingly dangerous, divided and intolerant world and the hard-fought rights of the 2SLGBTQI+ community are under threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to joke that he was responsible for the success of the show, despite not being in power when it was approved for funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a politician, I\u2019m not above taking credit for the Canadian funding that helped you share this story with the world,\u201d Carney said. \u201cI greenlit this thing. I stood up to the Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Mark Carney was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, giving global leaders a lesson in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-271896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}