both were romantically linked for the first time in 2017 while working on the 2018 film Mary Magdalenefour years after they first met on the set of His. That same year, they sparked engagement rumors when Rooney was seen wearing a diamond ring, although neither publicly addressed the rumors at the time.
In November 2020, The couple confirmed that they had welcomed a son named River—in honor of Joaquín's late brother—and in February of this year Rooney her last pregnancy debuted at the premiere of The Kitchen at the Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, with the 38-year-old cradling her baby bump as she walked the red carpet.
And despite remaining tight-lipped about his love life, Joaquín has spoken before about how quickly he got carried away with the Carol actress.
“She's the only girl I looked up on the Internet.” he said vanity fair in 2019and added that he thought she hated him before finding out he was fair too shy to ask him out. “We were just friends, email friends. I'd never done that.”