While the couple has collaborated on a few films—including his 2023 directorial debut The Absence of Eden and the 2024 short Dovecote—their relationship began out of the spotlight—and a few thousand feet in the air.
“It was a Virgin America flight from Los Angeles to New York post-Thanksgiving,” Zoe recalled on an April episode of The Drew Barrymore Show about how she met the artist. “We just had a conversation. And then we realized that in a span of three years prior to that, we kept bumping into each other. And it was always like, ‘Oh my god. There’s that guy, that really gorgeous Italian. Oh my god, don’t ever talk to him—he’s probably a player. And Marco was probably always like, ‘Oh, look at this beautiful actress. Let me try to make love to her, and if I don’t, then let me try to sell her a painting.’”
While the Lioness star admitted she “wasn’t really friendly” at first, she and the filmmaker soon formed a connection.
“I left my email to her best friends,” Marco added, “and in the night, they sent an email and said, ‘Do you want to go out?’ And I said, ‘No, I don’t feel it.’ And she answered me, ‘Womp womp.’ And I didn’t know what this means. And I said, ‘OK.’ And like a month after, she text me and say, ‘I come into your studio?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I would love that.’ And she came down to the studio. From that day, we never separate.”
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