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Michael Douglas Shockingly Finds Out Scarlett Johansson Is His Cousin: ‘Are You Kidding?’


Michael Douglas was shocked to find out that Marvel costar Scarlett Johansson is his cousin through DNA tracing during an episode of Finding Your Roots.

Michael Douglas never expected to find out that he is related to one of the most popular female movie stars — Scarlett Johansson. The shared DNA “appear on Scarlett’s maternal lines, which stretch back to Jewish communities in Eastern Europe.” Michael was fascinated by the discovery during the episode. “If you’re not careful, you don’t really cherish that moment or that time and next thing you wake up and its 50 years later and you go, ‘Whoah what happened?’” he said during an appearance at the Paley Center in September 2019.

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