Michael Douglas was left distraught after discovering he was linked to a Marvel co-star

Michael Douglas has discovered that he is related to one of his Marvel co-stars.

The actor, who is the son of three-time Academy Award nominee Kirk Douglas and is married to Best Supporting Actress winner Catherine Zeta-Jones, appeared in an episode of the genealogy series. Find your roots.

At the end of his segment of the episode, Douglas received a surprise from host Henry Louis Gates, who told the Ant-Man actor that he is distantly related to one of his Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) co-stars: Scarlett Johansson.

“Your DNA cousin is Scarlett Johansson,” Gates told the star, who won Best Actor for his film. Wall Street At the 1988 Academy Awards.

“Michael and Scarlett share identical segments of DNA on four different chromosomes, all of which appear on Scarlett’s maternal lines, which extend to Jewish communities in Eastern Europe,” Gates added.

“Are you kidding?” Douglas said, visibly surprised. Oh, this is amazing. Well, that's great. that's awesome. This is unreasonable.”

He said he was “looking forward to seeing” Johansson again to inform her of their connection.

Both actors appeared in the superhero mix Avengers: Endgame – Douglas as Hank Pym and Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow.

While Douglas has had a successful career in Hollywood as an actor and producer since the 1970s, he does not want his children to follow in his footsteps.

In 2021, Zeta-Jones, to whom he has been married for 23 years, revealed that Douglas warned their children against acting because he believed it was difficult to succeed with famous parents.

Zeta-Jones said that Dylan, 23, and Carys, 21, want to follow in their parents' footsteps, but they said they… Wall Street The star father tried to talk them out of the idea.

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Douglas, 79, believes they will have to work harder to overcome the connection between their parents' identities.

In the same episode of Find your rootsGates told Girls star Lena Dunham that she is a distant relative of Curb your enthusiasmLarry David.

Dunham replied: “It's Larry David – the other LD! This is the most important information I could ever get.”