Stephen Huszar, Katie Cassidy.Photo:Katie Cassidy
Katie Cassidy
Kate Cassidyis recalling how she fell for herA Royal Christmas Crushcostar Stephen Huszar.
TheArrowalum, 36, revealed the relationship turned romantic after the pair shared a meal together during the second week of filming the upcoming Hallmark film.
“I think we went for lunch or something, and I noticed his crystals,” she toldEntertainment Tonight. “I love crystals. And we started bonding over spirituality and I started to get to know the real Stephen and I was very smitten.”
“How could you not be with a s— eating grin looking at this horrible-looking person and this jawline?” she teased.
Stephen Huszar, Katie Cassidy.Katie Cassidy
The couple recalled toETthat they found common ground shortly after they first met.
“I’m very open. When we first met, he didn’t know who I was,” she explained. “I didn’t know who he was. It was all very genuine and real and we took each other at face value. This may sound a little cheesy, but when you know, you know. Or it’s meant to be. It’s the universe. And timing is everything.”
“It’s just getting to know someone and seeing that, well, there is a lot of commonality there and there’s a lot of respect there,” Huszar added. “In many ways, not just our art form but other things in our lives. So that made it very interesting and different.”
Cassidy noted that she and Huszar “work really well together,” adding, “And we’ve realized we work really well together. We travel really well together. We have so much in common. It’s nice to also be friends with someone first, but then have it evolve into this beautiful [relationship]."
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“And it just happened,” she shared. “I don’t know, it just happened. But I think we had the same moment when we both realized we actually had chemistry.”
Huszar recalled how the realization happened while filming one scene in the upcoming film, sharing “It was actually exactly the same scene so that was good. Our intuitions were both firing at the same time.”
Last month, a source exclusively confirmed to PEOPLE thatCassidy and Huszar were dating.
“They’re very much in love and just got back from a European trip in which they joined her family in Portugal, then headed to Spain and France, before hitting Monaco for the Grand Prix,” the insider said.
The actress laterconfirmed the relationshipon Instagram, writing, “Welp, cats out of the bag” alongside a picture of the couple.
Cassidy opened up to PEOPLE last year about stepping back into the dating world after finalizing herdivorce from ex-husband Matthew Rogers.
“January 2020, I moved back to L.A.,filed for divorceand then we were all in lockdown for like a year,” said Cassidy, who’s thedaughter of latePartridge Familystar David Cassidy.
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A Royal Christmas Crushpremieres Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on Hallmark Channel.
source: people.com
