Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams’ Bugonia Halloween

Photos by Tara Taralynn, left, and TKA201, right (CC BY-SA)

The Lowdown

Heated Rivalry stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams spent Halloween as the leads of Bugonia. Storrie played Emma Stone’s shaved-head CEO and Williams played Jesse Plemons’ conspiracy theorist, and Storrie used the look to poke fun at the fuss over his own new haircut (E! News; Just Jared).

Key Takeaways

Storrie dressed as Michelle Fuller, Stone’s pharmaceutical CEO, and Williams as Teddy Gatz, the beekeeper who kidnaps her because he believes she is an alien (E! News; Wikipedia).
Storrie shared the costume on Instagram with a nod to the film’s line “Why have you shaved off my hair?” E! read it as a joke about the reaction to his shorter cut for Heated Rivalry Season 2 (E! News).
Pop Crave’s post of the look passed 399,000 views and 22,000 likes on X (@PopCrave on X).
The pair also reunited with Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid, who went as Misery’s Annie Wilkes (E! News).

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The Story

In Bugonia, Teddy shaves Michelle’s head after kidnapping her, convinced her hair lets her contact the alien mothership. That made it an ideal costume for Storrie, whose shorter haircut for the second season of Heated Rivalry set off an outcry among fans, as E! News noted (E! News).

Storrie leaned into it. He paired his photos with Michelle’s line from the film, “Why have you shaved off my hair?” E! called it a cheeky reference to the reaction over his shorter ’do (E! News). Just Jared ran the costumes the same night (Just Jared).

Rachel Reid got the memo

Reid, who wrote the hockey romance novels behind the show, joined the two for the night as Annie Wilkes, the obsessive fan from Stephen King’s Misery who holds her favorite author captive. She captioned the photo on her Instagram Stories with the old meme line “Don’t ever talk to me or my sons again” (E! News).

Co-star François Arnaud, who plays Scott Hunter, went in a different direction. He dressed as Scott’s love interest, Kip, in the character’s Straw+Berry apron and wrote that he didn’t have co-star Robbie G.K.’s abs, “so I got the apron” (E! News).

The Background

Bugonia, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, opened in 2025 with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in the lead roles. It is an English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! (Wikipedia). The costume landed during a week when Williams’ fans were already in the news. PCP’s Zeitgeist desk looked at the parasocial debate around Williams, and earlier covered his The Assembly appearance.