Luke Evans spent years working too fast and furiously to really enjoy life, let alone date anyone for an extended period of time.

But then the Welsh actor met Fran Tomas in 2021, and fate took its course.

“I thought, ‘Oh here we go, another victim of my career, my new relationship,'” Evans recalled to Out in 2024, “and somehow, we managed to make it work.”

He spent most of their first year together filming in Colombia while Tomas, who’s from Madrid, was living in Spain. Yet they transcended those long-distance early days and have been together ever since, making their red carpet debut at the September 2022 premiere of Pinocchio.

Tomas, an architect and construction project manager, “keeps me grounded and keeps me calm in this strange world that I live in,” Evans said, calling his partner “a great human being” and “the best part of me, for sure.”