Michael Douglas and Scarlett Johansson Theo Wargo/Getty Images / Lionel Hahn/Getty Images
Michael Douglas was left shocked after uncovering that he’s related to other Hollywood celebrity Scarlett Johansson.
The 79-year-old star was informed on the Tuesday, April 2, episode of the PBS collection Finding Your Roots, organized by Henry Louis Gates Jr., that the 39-year-old celebrity is his “DNA cousin.”
“Are you kidding?” asked a shocked Douglas on discovering the information. “Oh, that’s amazing. Alright. This is cool. This is so cool.”
According to Gates and his “book of life,” which includes study from expert genealogists, Douglas and the Black Widow starlet “share identical branches of DNA on four different chromosomes.”
The set’s branches of common DNA “appear on Scarlett’s maternal lines, which stretch back to Jewish communities in Eastern Europe,” Douglas was informed.
“That’s incredible,” the Oscar victor reacted prior to claiming, “Well, I look forward to seeing Scarlett next time!”

MIchael Douglas discovers he’s related to Scarlett Johansson PBS
The exact same episode additionally included the writer-director-actor Lena Dunham, that was additionally informed by Gates that she had a star link, sharing “at least one common ancestor” with fellow filmmaker Larry David.
“This is the hottest information I could have ever gotten,” reacted Dunham, 37, amazed. “My husband’s going to freak out!”
Back in 2019, Johansson, that has actually formerly starred on Finding Your Roots, and Douglas showed up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s box-office knockout Avengers: Endgame.
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