To set the scene, the year was 2005, and Domingo was in Berkeley, Calif. He started the story saying he was just “minding your business going into a Walgreens” when a complete stranger caught his eye. “I see someone walking out. [He] has beautiful hair down to here, lip piercing,” Domingo recalled. “Beautiful, beautiful.”

After Colman Domingo walked the red carpet at the 2025 Oscars — where he was nominated for his lead performance in Sing Sing — with his husband Raúl, who rarely makes public appearances, a clip of the actor talking about the couple’s meet-cute resurfaced on X.