The 79-year-old star appeared on the series “Finding Your Roots” to delve into his ancestry, and he was stunned to learn that Johansson, with whom he appeared in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” is a ” DNA cousin.” of his.
When told the news on the show, Douglas said: “Are you kidding? Oh, it’s incredible. All right. It’s cool. This is so cool.”
“Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. shared the news with Douglas. He explained to her that he and the 39-year-old actress “share identical branches of DNA on four different chromosomes,” reports malefirst.co.uk.
The presenter added that the DNA branches “appear in Scarlett’s maternal lines, which trace back to Eastern European Jewish communities.”
Douglas said it was “amazing” to find out he and the actress were related,…
