Everybody’s thirsty for Hudson Williams. Not our words. Literally Wonderland’s.

The Heated Rivalry breakout covers Wonderland’s Spring 2026 issue, photographed by Davis Bates, somewhere in the middle of his extremely casual transformation from relatively unknown Canadian actor to Person You Suddenly Cannot Escape On The Internet.

Naturally, Wonderland responded by putting him in a jockstrap.

The shoot is sexy, obviously, but Bates keeps it from turning into the usual polished celebrity thirst shoot. It’s warm, flash-heavy, a little chaotic and actually fun. Williams gets covered in lipstick marks while several mystery hands pull at his clothes, ends up on the floor with some dumbbells, goes swimming in a completely see-through T-shirt, and casually drinks from a tiny pink mug in his underwear. Cinema.

“My Wonderland shoot was so cunty. I delivered.”

There’s something almost house party about the photography. Hard flash, warm colors, weird angles, bodies and hands creeping into frame. Even when Hudson is very clearly posing, nothing feels too precious about it. Which works particularly well for a guy whose current public persona seems to be approximately 40% actor, 30% accidental sex symbol and 30% saying something in an interview that immediately becomes a tweet.

Williams himself summed up the shoot to Heated Rivalry co-star Sophie Nélisse pretty efficiently: “My Wonderland shoot was so cunty. I delivered.”

Correct.

In their accompanying conversation Williams talks about his suddenly very public life, his roasted Dsquared2 runway walk (“Face card, no walk card”),  everyone investigating his height, and wanting whatever he does next to push him beyond Shane Hollander.

There is also a discussion about how nobody asks him what underwear he wears or what his favorite sex position is, which frankly sounds less like a complaint and more like a challenge to journalists everywhere.

But underneath all the internet chaos, he’s pretty clear that acting is still the point. And the photos actually get that balance right too. Yes, he looks insane. We have eyes. But Bates gives the whole thing enough humor and personality that it feels like Hudson Williams having fun with being a newly minted heartthrob instead of just being photographed like one.

For someone who claims to be exhausted, Hudson appears to be doing just fine.