Steven Krueger and Candice King. Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Paramount+
Steven Krueger and Candice King started dating after appearing on different shows within The Vampire Diaries universe — but would they ever work together now?
“It’d be really fun. We’re not the kind of people that are super precious about, like, ‘Oh, I need my space. I need to work and focus and all this,” Krueger, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly about how he and King “would crush it” as costars. “I’m sure that’d be a great time. If you want to write a movie for us, by all means, go for it.”
Krueger and King, 37, have spoken about a potential collaboration but haven’t committed to a specific project yet. “We joked around about it,” he added. “Part of the beauty of this industry is you never know what’s going to happen. We do have a lot of the same friends who are producers and writers so I’m sure that at some point somewhere down the road, that’s definitely a possibility.”
Krueger rose to fame playing Josh Rosza on The Originals. After The Vampire Diaries came to an end, Krueger found love with King, who played Caroline Forbes on TVD from 2009 to 2017. The couple confirmed their romance in December 2023 and have continued to support each other’s careers — including King with Krueger’s role on Yellowjackets.
“Candice is a fan of the show and she wanted to murder me if I gave her any spoilers this season. She loves watching it and that was a thing that she discussed with me before we left to film. I thought she was joking at first, but she was like, ‘Look at my face. I’m dead serious. I don’t want to know anything,’” he recalled to Us. “And I’m like, ‘Well, how do I talk to you about work?’ She’s like, ‘Maybe you don’t talk to me about work.’ She is very serious about not wanting to know what happens in the show. She wants to find out for herself.”
Steven Krueger and Candice King. Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Paramount+
King’s love for Yellowjackets has caused Krueger to be more cautious about sharing stories from set.
“Nobody wants a spoiler because the way that the story is told is so damn entertaining and so just edge of your seat that it kind of ruins it when you find out something in advance. I remember I FaceTimed Candice at one point and I was in my trailer but I did have on wardrobe and costume,” he shared. “She saw something, a tiny little thing as part of my wardrobe, and was like, ‘Oh, I cannot believe you are on FaceTime.’ So it’s little stuff like that. But that’s the beauty of this show. There’s little Easter eggs just all over the place and that’s what makes it so fun.”
Despite getting his start on The Originals, Krueger is not recognized as much as King has been.
The Vampire Diaries didn’t just have countless couples on screen — many cast members found love with their costars or members of the extended franchise. After The Vampire Diaries debuted on The CW in 2009, viewers quickly got invested in the supernatural events taking place in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. At the […]
“Anytime I’m walking around with Candice, it’s always like, ‘Oh my God Caroline!’ And then they do a double take and they’re like, ‘Oh, right. yeah. And what was your character’s name again? From The Originals?‘ I’m like, ‘Yep, that was me,’” he quipped. “Yellowjackets is a little bit more in the zeitgeist right now and at the top of people’s minds. It’s definitely Yellowjackets at the moment.”
Krueger, who plays Coach Ben Scott on the Showtime series, continued: “But I love interacting with fans. It’s been so fun. You go back 10 or 15 years and you tell yourself when you’re first thinking about getting into this industry that somewhere down the line you’re going to walk down the street and people are going to say, ‘Hey Steven, I know you from this.’ That experience and that phenomenon is still mind-blowing to me. I feel incredibly grateful that I’m in a position like that.”
Yellowjackets is available to stream on Paramount+ Fridays and airs on Showtime Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.