Cooper Hoffman said he and Nico Parker did not start dating until a few weeks after filming Poetic License, when she came to New York to meet his mother and he asked her to be his girlfriend. The relationship had already drawn attention because the two met while making the 2024 production, but the official start came later.
Poetic License and 2024
2024 is the key marker here: Poetic License began production that year, and that is the point when the two first crossed paths. Hoffman’s account narrows the timeline in a way public hints never did, turning a loose set-side connection into a specific dating milestone.
“But we didn’t officially start dating until a few weeks after filming, when she came to New York to meet my mom, and I asked her to be my girlfriend. It was very sweet,” Hoffman said in a profile published on The Hollywood Reporter. That sequence gives the clearest public version yet of how the relationship moved from filming to a private family visit and then to an explicit request.
Nico Parker and Cooper Hoffman
Before Hoffman laid out the timeline, Parker had already signaled that she was seeing someone in an interview with The Sunday Times, where she called the person she was dating “sweet.” That earlier comment left the identity out of view, so Hoffman’s account fills in the missing part without changing the basic arc: the pair met on set, then made it official only after the shoot.
The detail that the relationship was not official during filming but became so weeks later matters because it separates production chemistry from private commitment. For readers tracking the pair through Poetic License, the useful takeaway is simple: the New York visit was the turning point, not the start of the connection.
New York visit
New York is where Hoffman said he asked Parker to be his girlfriend, after she came there to meet his mother. That makes the family introduction part of the public record now, alongside the fact that the two met on Poetic License and only later decided to date.
Exactly when they first met and how the relationship developed between filming and that New York visit still is not laid out. What is clear is that Hoffman has now put a date shape on the romance, and he did it with one concrete threshold: a few weeks after filming ended.
