Al Pacino met Pope Leo XIV on Monday, June 16. "He was very excited and very happy to meet the Pope," film producer Andrea Iervolino, who was present for the meeting, tells PEOPLE.

Al Pacino and film producer Andrea Iervolino met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Iervolino shared on his Instagram page Monday.

Pope Leo XIV, an Augustinian friar, has been shaped by deep interiority and the theology of longing and memory. He personally engaged with all three of his predecessors — he worked under them, learned from them, and shared in their vision. He doesn’t inherit the papacy as an outsider but comes from inside the Church’s memory.