Michael Douglas shocked to find out Scarlett Johansson is his “DNA cousin”

Actor Michael Douglas came upon he is associated to a different Hollywood star after a current episode of the PBS present “Discovering Your Roots” revealed the connection.

The sequence’ host, Henry Louis Gates mentioned to Douglas that he is a “DNA cousin” of his “Avengers: Endgame” co-star Scarlett Johansson. Douglas could not consider it, telling Gates, “Are you kidding?” 

 “That is wonderful,” Douglas added. “Alright. That is cool. That is so cool.”

In keeping with Gates, each actors “share equivalent stretches of DNA on 4 totally different chromosomes, all of which seem on Scarlett’s maternal strains, which stretch again to Jewish communities in Japanese Europe.”

“I stay up for seeing Scarlett subsequent time,” Douglas mentioned. The episode aired Tuesday on PBS. 

It isn’t the primary time there’s been a surprising revelation on the present that reveals the family tree of celebrities. Final yr, Kerry Washington came upon she was conceived by means of a sperm donor. Edward Norton found Pocahontas is an ancestor of his. Even “CBS Night Information” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell and “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King realized about their household’s historical past on the present.