Scarlett Johansson admitted that her first romantic encounter with Colin Jost abruptly resulted in a “weird” manner, leaving the comic elevating an eyebrow.
Whereas co-hosting Monday’s episode of “Today With Jenna and Friends,” the “Jurassic World Rebirth” main woman mirrored on how her first date with the “Saturday Night Live” star went from being “lovely” to downright awkward.
“My first date with Colin, honestly, nobody ever really asked me out before,” Johansson recalled, noting that she had minimal courting expertise when she met Jost as a result of she had been a “serial monogamist” earlier than they crossed paths.
“I just never got the traditional, ‘Hey, would you like to have dinner sometime?’” she defined.
The Marvel star shared that she and Jost went to an Italian restaurant in New York for his or her first date, and whereas the night kicked off on an excellent be aware, issues went left later within the night.
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“It was a lovely date,” she mentioned. “We had dinner at, like, 8 p.m. or whatever, and then afterwards he was like, ‘I would love to, you know, I’m meeting friends. Let’s go grab a drink.’”
Apparently caught off guard by Jost’s suggestion, Johansson determined to name it an evening as an alternative of extending their date.
“I hadn’t dated basically ever and so I was just like, ‘I’ve got to go now. I need to leave,’” she remembered. “And I got home to relieve my babysitter, and it was like 9:36 p.m., and she was like, ‘Why are you home?’”
Johansson defined to her confused babysitter that she wrapped the evening up early as a result of she “felt so flustered” by Jost’s provide to hang around additional.
Whereas the couple moved on from the actor’s awkward departure, she famous that her conduct had thrown Jost for a loop.
“Later on he was like, ‘I totally thought that was it. You were acting so weird,’” Johansson mentioned. “I panicked. I don’t know.”
Jost and Johansson first began courting in 2017, although they first met on the set of “SNL” when she hosted the sketch present in 2006. They tied the knot in 2020. The “Lucy” actor was beforehand married to actor Ryan Reynolds from 2008 to 2011 and journalist Romain Dauriac from 2014 to 2017.
The “Weekend Update” co-host and Johansson welcomed their first baby collectively in August 2021. Johansson additionally shares a daughter with Dauriac.
