Candice King

Podcrushed

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Candice King (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Juno, Deadgirl) joins the pod today to share about her early days in a girl group, what it was like growing up as the creative kid in a household with an engineer mom and a doctor dad, and her favorite memories from the set of The Vampire Diaries.

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0:00.0	Lemonada
0:02.7	My mom was an engineer and my dad was a doctor.
0:08.5	So they luckily, like, trusted me and believed in me enough.
0:13.5	I don't think they ever anticipated the pivot into acting.
0:17.2	They were terrified when I mentioned that.
0:20.0	And when I told them, like, I booked a pilot.
0:21.6	And it's like this vampire show.
0:23.6	They were like, hmm, this is, do you need to come home?
0:27.6	Like, they were very concerned.
0:30.6	And then now, like all these years later, I mean, I don't know.
0:33.6	I feel like even last summer, I was like, I'm filming a show.
0:36.6	And they're like, are you?
0:38.5	Are you okay?
0:39.2	Do you need help?
0:42.1	Welcome to Podcrushed.
0:43.8	We're hosts.
0:44.6	I'm Penn.
0:45.5	I'm Nava.
0:46.2	And I'm Sophie.
0:47.3	And I think we could have been your middle school besties.
0:50.1	Coordinating our outfits to match our mood rings.
0:55.1	Welcome to Podcrust.
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