Al Pacino called out over unkempt appearance as he becomes first movie star to get audience with Pope Leo

Al Paci­no became the first major film star to have a pri­vate audi­ence with the new­ly elect­ed Pope Leo (@andreaiervolinoproducer/Instagram

VATICAN CITY, ROME: Once regard­ed as the flam­boy­ant icon of Hol­ly­wood, Al Paci­no has now become the tar­get of trolling over his unkempt appear­ance dur­ing his first meet­ing with Pope Leo.x

The 85-year-old leg­endary actor became the first major film star to have a pri­vate audi­ence with the new­ly elect­ed Pope Leo fol­low­ing their meet­ing in the Vat­i­can on Mon­day, June 16.

Al Pacino’s unkempt appearance during audience with Pope Leo

The ‘God­fa­ther’ star, who is cur­rent­ly film­ing “Maserati: The Broth­ers” in Italy, arrived in Rome by a pri­vate jet to meet the Amer­i­can Pon­tiff over the week­end.

The meet­ing with the Pope was also attend­ed by Andrea Ier­voli­no, the Ital­ian-Cana­di­an pro­duc­er behind Pacino’s upcom­ing ven­ture that focus­es on the life of Italy’s leg­endary Maserati fam­i­ly.

Insta­gram account, Ier­voli­no is seen pre­sent­ing the pon­tiff with a com­mem­o­ra­tive mod­el car in a glass case, as Paci­no looks on.

How­ev­er, what caught fans’ atten­tion was Al Pacino’s unkempt appear­ance, includ­ing an unshaven beard and an untucked but­ton-up shirt, lay­ered by a long black coat.

Al Pacino called out over his disheveled appearance during meeting with Pope Leo

After the pic­tures from the pri­vate meet­ing start­ed mak­ing rounds on the inter­net, fans called out Al Paci­no over his disheveled appear­ance dur­ing his audi­ence with Pope Leo.

“Seri­ous­ly, shirt untucked and wear­ing sneak­ers!” one X user posed. “I think Mr. Paci­no may have demen­tia. Also, he’s unshaven and his shirt isn’t tucked in,” anoth­er spec­u­lat­ed.

“Woah, how old is Al Paci­no right now?” one per­son asked, while anoth­er wrote, “He’s aged damn.”

“And no one told him to shave and comb his hair?” one indi­vid­ual com­ment­ed. “Paci­no looks like a cut. That’s prob­a­bly why he has­n’t cut his hair in a while,” anoth­er wrote.

Dude Al is look­ing rough,” a neti­zen said. “Is Al Paci­no well? He def­i­nite­ly does­n’t look well. Why is the oth­er guy, who­ev­er he is, doing all the talk­ing?” anoth­er asked.

Al Pacino’s producer gushes over their meeting with Pope Leo

Ier­voli­no described the meet­ing as a moment of “pro­found spir­i­tu­al and cul­tur­al inspi­ra­tion.”

In a state­ment to Hol­ly­wood Reporter, the pro­duc­er explained that the dis­cus­sion cen­tered around “shared val­ues that lie at the heart of both the Catholic Church and the film: fam­i­ly uni­ty, love, com­pas­sion and the impor­tance of con­tribut­ing to the com­mon good.”

“These val­ues, which Pope Leo XIV has con­sis­tent­ly empha­sized in his recent mes­sages to the world, res­onate deeply with the sto­ry of the Maserati broth­ers: a fam­i­ly whose lega­cy was built not only on inno­va­tion and excel­lence but on pro­found mutu­al respect, sol­i­dar­i­ty and a shared vision,” he con­tin­ued.

Last month, it was con­firmed that Paci­no had joined the cast of Bob­by Moresco’s film, por­tray­ing the role of Vin­cen­zo Vac­caro, a busi­ness­man and ear­ly investor in the auto dynasty.