Steven Krueger and Candice King. Jesse Grant/Getty Photographs for Paramount+
Steven Krueger and Candice King began relationship after showing on completely different reveals inside The Vampire Diaries universe — however would they ever work collectively now?
“It’d be actually enjoyable. We’re not the sort of individuals which can be tremendous treasured about, like, ‘Oh, I want my house. I must work and focus and all this,” Krueger, 35, completely instructed Us Weekly about how he and King “would crush it” as costars. “I’m certain that’d be a good time. If you wish to write a film for us, by all means, go for it.”
Krueger and King, 37, have spoken a couple of potential collaboration however haven’t dedicated to a particular challenge but. “We joked round about it,” he added. “A part of the great thing about this business is you by no means know what’s going to occur. We do have plenty of the identical associates who’re producers and writers so I’m certain that sooner or later someplace down the highway, that’s positively a chance.”
Krueger rose to fame enjoying Josh Rosza on The Originals. After The Vampire Diaries got here to an finish, Krueger discovered love with King, who performed Caroline Forbes on TVD from 2009 to 2017. The couple confirmed their romance in December 2023 and have continued to assist one another’s careers — together with King with Krueger’s function on Yellowjackets.
“Candice is a fan of the present and he or she needed to homicide me if I gave her any spoilers this season. She loves watching it and that was a factor that she mentioned with me earlier than we left to movie. I assumed she was joking at first, however she was like, ‘Take a look at my face. I’m useless critical. I don’t need to know something,’” he recalled to Us. “And I’m like, ‘Effectively, how do I discuss to you about work?’ She’s like, ‘Perhaps you don’t discuss to me about work.’ She could be very critical about not eager to know what occurs within the present. She desires to search out out for herself.”
Steven Krueger and Candice King. Jesse Grant/Getty Photographs for Paramount+
King’s love for Yellowjackets has precipitated Krueger to be extra cautious about sharing tales from set.
“No one desires a spoiler as a result of the best way that the story is instructed is so rattling entertaining and so simply fringe of your seat that it sort of ruins it once you discover out one thing upfront. I bear in mind I FaceTimed Candice at one level and I used to be in my trailer however I did have on wardrobe and costume,” he shared. “She noticed one thing, a tiny little factor as a part of my wardrobe, and was like, ‘Oh, I can’t imagine you might be on FaceTime.’ So it’s little stuff like that. However that’s the great thing about this present. There’s little Easter eggs simply in every single place and that’s what makes it so enjoyable.”
Regardless of getting his begin on The Originals, Krueger isn’t acknowledged as a lot as King has been.
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“Anytime I’m strolling round with Candice, it’s all the time like, ‘Oh my God Caroline!’ After which they do a double take they usually’re like, ‘Oh, proper. yeah. And what was your character’s identify once more? From The Originals?‘ I’m like, ‘Yep, that was me,’” he quipped. “Yellowjackets is a bit of bit extra within the zeitgeist proper now and on the high of individuals’s minds. It’s positively Yellowjackets in the meanwhile.”
Krueger, who performs Coach Ben Scott on the Showtime sequence, continued: “However I really like interacting with followers. It’s been so enjoyable. You return 10 or 15 years and also you inform your self once you’re first desirous about entering into this business that someplace down the road you’re going to stroll down the road and individuals are going to say, ‘Hey Steven, I do know you from this.’ That have and that phenomenon remains to be mind-blowing to me. I really feel extremely grateful that I’m able like that.”
Yellowjackets is obtainable to stream on Paramount+ Fridays and airs on Showtime Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
