Colin Jost is opening up about being a stepdad.
Jost, 42, made uncommon feedback about being a stepfather to Scarlett Johansson’s 9-year-old daughter, Rose, whom Johansson shares along with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
Jost and Johansson, 39, married in October 2020 and welcomed their first baby, son Cosmo, now 2, in August 2021.
“I believe a part of the rationale I fell in love along with her is she’s an incredible mother,” Jost advised The New York Occasions in an interview printed on Saturday, July 13. “I’ve recognized Rose, my stepdaughter, since she was 2. It’s bizarre. You get to really preview somebody as a mother.”
The Saturday Night time Dwell star continued to gush over his spouse, saying that persons are stunned by “how a lot regular stuff” Johansson does.
“She goes to the grocery store. She’s simply superb at sporting a hat and he or she retains transferring,” mentioned the comic. “She is ready to keep a bit beneath the radar, however she’s in a position to do all these on a regular basis issues and luxuriate in them, too.”
Jost makes a quick cameo in Johansson’s newest film, Fly Me to the Moon, which costars Channing Tatum. In a current look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Johansson quipped that Jost has to look in her motion pictures as a result of it’s stipulated of their prenup.
“Greg Berlanti was our director … [he’s] an enormous fan of Colin’s,” the actress defined of her husband’s cameo on the July 8 episode of The Tonight Present.
“Colin … I believe he needed to do it ’trigger it’s, like, in our prenuptial settlement,” she went on to joke. “If I ask him to do one thing, he needs to be there to assist me. He needs to be in each considered one of my movies.”
The Black Widow actress additionally revealed that she typically enlists Jost to assist her study strains for her motion pictures, although it doesn’t all the time end up properly.
“I run strains with him,” she mentioned. “Which is nice … you’d suppose that might be very handy as a result of you will have a companion there that will help you out. You study your strains for tomorrow or no matter. He does, like, actual severe … he actually commits to the road studying. It’s not all the time the efficiency I need it to be. I’m identical to, ‘Say the strains!’ Massive dramatic pauses. He will get actually into it. I’m like, ‘I can’t focus. Overlook it. I’ll simply study them myself.’”