{"id":304661,"date":"2026-02-27T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304661\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:54:06","slug":"heated-rivalrys-connor-storrie-shows-off-his-accents-in-hilarious-snl-promo-ahead-of-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304661\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019s\u2019 Connor Storrie Shows Off His Accents in Hilarious \u2018SNL\u2019 Promo Ahead of Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famously, \u201cHeated Rivalry<\/a>\u201d star Connor Storrie<\/a> is great at accents. His Russian is especially popular, which the actor pulled off to play a convincingly Slavic Ilya Rozanov in the hit series.<\/p>\n

Now, ahead of Storrie\u2019s gig as \u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d host on Feb. 28, the actor put his language chops to the test in a hilarious accent duel against cast member James Austin Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd by the way, the Russian accent was awesome,\u201d Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> says to Storrie, who responds, \u201cThanks, I actually do all kinds of accents!\u201d The mere mention of the subject summons Johnson, who rolls up ready to defend his honor as the accent authority at \u201cSNL<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two face off, putting on their best German (Storrie sips a beer while quipping about the ease at which he can slip into the pronunciation), Cajun, French, Italian and even Shakespearean accents. (After hearing Storrie\u2019s Shakespeare, his next…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famously, \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d star Connor Storrie is great at accents. His Russian is especially popular, which the actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[34398,34399,16055,430,9719,156,34397,34395,4223,111,139,16052,69,34396,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-304661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-atores","9":"tag-atrizes-e-diretores","10":"tag-celebridades","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-cinema","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-estrelas","15":"tag-filmes","16":"tag-hollywood","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-noticias","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-televisao","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}