Teyana Taylor has a special name for her handsome partner, Aaron Pierre, but surprisingly, it isn’t boyfriend just yet. During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Nov. 5, the One Battle After Another actress and singer revealed that she loves calling the hunky Brit, who was recently featured in PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive issue, her “apple pie.”

“That’s my apple pie, and we are each other’s safe space,” Taylor, 34, gushed.

According to Taylor, she’s taking things slow and enjoying the moment, with no pressure to label her budding romance just yet. She and the 31-year-old actor of Mustafa: The Lion King, went public with their relationship in March.

“If that’s something that I decide to say, then it’s going to be something that we say together,” Taylor told The Hollywood Reporter

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