Scarlett Johansson “panicked” and abruptly left her first date with her husband, Colin Jost.
The “Black Widow” actress recalled having a “lovely date” with her now-husband in 2017 while co-hosting Monday’s episode of the “Today” show with Jenna Bush Hager.
“Nobody had ever asked me out before,” Johansson said, explaining, “I was a serial monogamist, and I never got the sort of traditional like, ‘Hey, would you like to have dinner sometime?’”
At the time, the “Saturday Night Live” cast member brought Johansson to an Italian restaurant in the East Village.
“We had dinner. Afterward, he was like, ‘I’m meeting friends, let’s go grab a drink,’ and I hadn’t dated basically ever, so I was just like, ‘I have to go now.’ I need to leave,’” Johansson remembered.
She wrapped up the date in about an hour and a half before making her swift exit.
“I got home to relieve my babysitter, and she was like, ‘Why are you home?’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know!’ I just felt so flustered,” she explained.
ScarJo, 41, said that her premature departure totally spooked the comedian, 43.
“Later, he was like, ‘I totally thought that was it. You were acting so weird.’ I panicked. I don’t know,” the “Jurassic World Rebirth” star laughed.
In his 2020 memoir, “A Very Punchable Face,” the “Weekend Update” co-anchor recalled his first impression of Johansson after meeting on the set of “SNL” in 2006.
“She was “beautiful, smart, sweet and intimidatingly sophisticated.
“She claims that she remembers thinking I was ‘cute’ but I know what I looked like and that’s not the word I would have used. (‘Shaggy’ would have been more generous. ‘Slovenly’ would have been more accurate,)” he wrote.
The couple got engaged after dating for two years and tied the knot in October 2020.
They share a 4-year-old son named Cosmo, and Johansson also co-parents her daughter Rose, 11, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
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