After five years of marriage to SNL star Colin Jost, Scarlett Johansson revealed that the couple’s relationship almost failed to launch.

In fact, after their first date in 2017, Jost was unsure whether Johansson was even interested in seeing him again.

“Honestly, nobody ever asked me out really before,” The Avengers actress explained during the Dec. 1 episode of TODAY with Jenna & Friends. Johansson was previously married to actor Ryan Reynolds (from 2008-2011) and French journalist Romain Dauriac (from 2014-2017), having her daughter, Rose, with her second husband.

“I was a serial monogamist,” she said. “And I just never got the sort of traditional like, ‘Hey, would you like to have dinner sometime?’”

Jost, it seems, was the exception.

“He actually asked me out on a date,” the Black

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