Overview

• Al Pacino and Italian producer Andrea Iervolino were received in a private audience by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on June 16, marking the first official meeting between the new American pope and a film actor.
• Iervolino said the discussion centered on family unity, love, compassion and the common good—values Pope Leo XIV has emphasized in his recent messages.
• The producer presented the pope with a commemorative Maserati model car in a glass case as a symbol of the film’s themes.
• Pacino, who plays investor Vincenzo Vaccaro in Bobby Moresco’s Maserati: The Brothers, is filming the biopic in Italy alongside Anthony Hopkins, Andy Garcia and Jessica Alba.
• Pope Leo XIV was elected last month as the first American pontiff following the death of Pope Francis.