Al Pacino’s 30-year-old girlfriend, Noor Alfallah – with whom the acting legend recently welcomed a son – says she has the pandemic to thank for her relationship with the Oscar winner.

The Kuwaiti-American producer told Vogue Arabia that roughly a year after meeting at a dinner, she and the native New Yorker, 83, struck up a friendship.

“Then the pandemic hit,” said Alfallah, whose feature debut, Little Death, recently premiered at Sundance.