Pope Leo XIV watched Conclave movie to prepare, brother says

<p>In a new interview, the new pope’s brother reveals he ‘knew how to behave’ because he had seen the 2024 hit thriller</p><p>Vatican watchers weren’t the only ones consulting the movie <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/sep/10/conclave-movie-review-ralph-fiennes">Conclave</a> before the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/08/white-smoke-signals-election-of-new-roman-catholic-pope">pivotal election of a new pope</a>.</p><p>The new pontiff himself – Cardinal <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/08/robert-francis-prevost-the-moderate-good-humoured-first-american-pope#:~:text=Robert%20Francis%20Prevost%20%E2%80%93%20who%20has,his%20election%20is%20similarly%20historic.">Robert Francis Prevost</a>, who took the name <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/pope-leo-xiv">Leo XIV</a> – watched the 2024 movie dramatizing the Vatican’s selection process ahead of the sequestration of cardinals that chose him to lead the Catholic church, according to his older brother.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/09/pope-leo-xiv-watched-conclave-movie">Continue reading...</a>