Heated Rivalry Star Hudson Williams Says Those Viral Letterboxd Reviews Were Mostly Fake

In the most chronically online sentence you’ll read today, Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams has addressed the backlash over his viral Letterboxd reviews. 

The hullabaloo kicked off earlier this month when various movie reviews attributed to Hudson’s Letterboxd username took off like wildfire on social media. 

Let’s just say the reviews that were circulating online weren’t exactly pretty. 

One of them described Nope as a “pathetic excuse for a movie”, while another described while another described Pedro Pascal in Materialists as a “wooden” actor without a “single likeable personality trait”.

Most shockingly, Hudson supposedly sung praises for the controversial movie Lolita, saying he gave the age-gap romance film five stars because “perverted movies are so good”.

The backlash was swift, with some social media users calling for Hudson to be “cancelled” for his more controversial takes and others saying he should be free to share his opinions, particularly since they were shared before his breakout stardom this year. 

But all of it, it seems, was for nought — with Hudson claiming that dozens of the most-circulated Letterboxd reviews weren’t even written by him.   

“There was a Letterboxd scandal,” Hudson said in a recent interview with Wonderland. 

“So fucking many Letterboxd reviews of mine that aren’t mine. I’ve seen one real Letterboxd review, and maybe like 25 fake ones,” he explained. 

Hudson went on to clarify that he generally disagreed with most of the reviews falsely credited to him, saying “some of them are good, but they’re stupid”. 

“Some of them are really awful, and I’m like, ‘I like that movie’,” he said. 

The actor said the fabricated backlash is just one example of the at-times “disrespectful” public reaction to his overnight success. 

“I didn’t think there would be as many disrespectful people as there are,” he said. 

“Why are people hating on me? There’s all this fake news about me. How do I already have fake news?” he added.  

It’s not known who was behind the dozens of fake reviews, but between his clarification and his decision to delete his Letterboxd altogether at the height of the controversy, Hudson has shut the door on Letterboxd-gate for good.  

Which is a shame, because I’d kill for his likely scathing review of Cats.  

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