‘SO INTENSE’

Scarlett Johansson: ‘I Felt Insane’ During Colin Jost’s ‘SNL’ Joke About Me

“I just can’t believe that they went there,” the actor said of that “vagina joke” Michael Che forced Colin Jost to read live on-air.

Scarlett Johansson has shared her unfiltered thoughts about the extremely “vulgar” joke her husband, Colin Jost, made at her expense during the regular “joke swap” feature on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” with co-anchor Michael Che. “I just can’t believe that they went there. I was like—it was so gross. It was really gross. And, like, old-school gross,” Johansson told InStyle as part of a new profile pegged to her role in the upcoming Jurassic World: Rebirth. The actor revealed that she had been warned Che had written a “vagina joke” for Jost to read about her live on-air, but when she realized it involved a Costco roast beef sandwich, she thought, “No, Michael!” What made the whole thing “so intense” was that she was backstage at Studio 8H watching the bit live with lights and a camera in her face to capture her reaction. “They were waiting for me to react. I felt insane. I was like, I think I’m going to faint,” she recalled, adding that she and Jost laughed about the whole thing when they finally got in bed at 4 a.m.: “I was like, ‘My nerves are shot.’ And Colin said, ‘Me too.’”