Scarlett Johansson admitted that her first romantic encounter with Colin Jost abruptly ended in a “weird” way, leaving the comedian raising an eyebrow.
While co-hosting Monday’s episode of “Today With Jenna and Friends,” the “Jurassic World Rebirth” leading lady reflected 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 dating experience when she met Jost because she had been a “serial monogamist” before they crossed paths.
“I just never got the traditional, ‘Hey, would you like to have dinner sometime?’” she explained.
The Marvel star shared that she and Jost went to an Italian restaurant in New York for their first date, and while the evening kicked off on a good note, things went left later in the evening.
Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson got engaged in May 2019.
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“It was a lovely date,” she said. “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 decided to call it a night instead 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 explained to her confused babysitter that she wrapped the night up early because she “felt so flustered” by Jost’s offer to hang out further.
While the couple moved on from the actor’s awkward departure, she noted that her behavior had thrown Jost for a loop.
“Later on he was like, ‘I totally thought that was it. You were acting so weird,’” Johansson said. “I panicked. I don’t know.”
Jost and Johansson first started dating in 2017, though they first met on the set of “SNL” when she hosted the sketch show in 2006. They tied the knot in 2020. The “Lucy” actor was previously 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 child together in August 2021. Johansson also shares a daughter with Dauriac.
