British hunk Stephen Moyer thinks that his TV bosses wanted him to date Anna Paquin.

The True Blood actor - who got engaged to his co-star last August - claims staff at network HBO tried their best to bring them together by booking them into the same hotel during filming of the pilot episode:

“They put us in the same hotel - though in not the same room to begin with. No, I’m joking. They put us in these hotel suites, and we hung out for a while and got to know each other. The attraction was there, so it was a matter of whether we acted on it or not.”

While he is blissfully happy with 27-year-old Anna, Stephen - who plays vampire Bill Compton in the show - admits he was reluctant to get romantically involved with her at first in case it destroyed the future of the program. He added in an interview with Details magazine, “To get a pilot that runs to a series, it’s big s**t to people. And so to come along and go, ‘Oh, let’s have a quick f**k’ and then risk arguing and being a nightmare when you’re playing the two people who are together the whole time - that would be immature.”

Stephen, 40, has been dating Anna - who plays Sookie Stackhouse - since 2007 but insists they won’t marry “until at least 2020.”