Those who have watched the rise of both shows, however, might see more parallels than that between the two. Both Heated Rivalry and Off Campus are romances that started off under the radar before becoming instant sensations, catapulting their stars to a new level of celebrity. Much like Heated Rivalry leads Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, Bright had no idea that being on this show would change her life overnight. If her Off Campus audition hadn’t worked out, she says, she would have pivoted away from acting, focusing instead on going to college and putting her leading lady dreams on the back burner. But a few weeks after that fateful tryout, she was flying to Vancouver to shoot the series. She calls it a leap of faith. “None of this was in my plan at all,” she says. “It flipped my life upside down in the best way I could have ever dreamed about. Things are coming true for me that…I never thought could happen.” Bright’s relationship with her character, Hannah, evolved over the course …