Katie Cassidy is about to star in her first ever Hallmark Channel movie this weekend!

The actress, who is best known for her role on The CW’s Arrow, stars alongside Stephen Huszar (who’s also her boyfriend!) in A Royal Christmas Crush, which debuts on Saturday, July 8.

Just Jared was lucky enough to speak with Katie about the flick and she opened up about the pressures of this being her first.

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Katie actually dismissed any pressure about making the film at all. Instead, she was excited!

“I was just excited,” she told us with a laugh. “Who doesn’t love a feel good movie? Who doesn’t want to be a woman who gets swept off her feet?”

Katie went on, saying that she “had a lovely experience. I love that there’s sort of a family dynamic there, and it’s like ‘You’re welcome. Thank you. Happy to be here. Easy to work with.’ It was lovely. I had a wonderful experience and I hope to do more.”

Of the future movies she has in mind, she hopes at least a few are with Stephen.

“Yes, more with him. Clearly we have chemistry, a royal or no royal. We’ll see. Yeah. So see what transpires this stuff.”

Katie isn’t the first to make their Hallmark Channel debut this year. So did David Gridley, Nadia Hatta and just recently, Rushi Kota.

Stay tuned for our full interview with Katie and Stephen!