'He’s a good guy': Scarlett Johansson gets candid about ex-husband Ryan Reynolds in Goop podcast
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: ‘Black Widow’ star Scarlett Johansson spoke candidly about her three marriages in a recent interview on Tuesday, April 18. Guess who got a special mention in the conversation with host Gwyneth Paltrow? It’s none other than the Marvel Cinematic Universe superstar’s ex-husband and ‘Deadpool’ actor Ryan Reynolds!
As the host of the Goop podcast, Paltrow asked her ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ co-star, "You've been married two times?" Johnsson corrected her by saying, "Three times." The conversation flowed naturally as Paltrow replied enthusiastically, "Oh that's right, because I forgot that you were married to Ryan Reynolds! Goals!" The ‘Lucy’ star was in all smiles as she affirmed, "Yes," before adding, "We weren't married very long, but we were when I first met you, for Iron Man [2] or whatever."
The ‘Goop’ founder then remarked, "We love a good Ryan Reynolds in our house," to which Johansson commented about her ex-husband, "He's a good guy." Johansson was married to Reynolds from 2008 to 2010. The couple who was extremely private about their relationship broke their marriage with a joint statement that said, "After long and careful consideration on both our parts, we've decided to end our marriage.” Reynolds’s representative said, "We entered our relationship with love and it's with love and kindness we leave it. While privacy isn't expected, it's certainly appreciated,” reports E! News.
'I kind of romanticised it'
In a 2019 interview to Vanity Fair, the ‘Shakespeare in Love’ actress said she didn’t understand marriage well in the first time, “I mean, the first time I got married I was 23 years old,” before adding, “I didn’t really have an understanding of marriage”.
“Maybe I kind of romanticised it, I think, in a way,” added the star who married twice more. After her divorce with Ryan Reynolds, Johansson got married to the French media person Romain Dauriac in 2014. The duo, who shares a daughter Rose, ended their marriage in 2017. The ‘Other Boleyn Girl’ star got third time lucky in love when she fell in love and married the ‘Saturday Night Live’ writer Colin Jost. They also share a son together, Cosmo. Ryan Reynolds went on to marry actress Blake Lively with whom he shares four children.
Following divorce with Dauriac and maintaining an amicable co-parenting situation with him, Johansson said in 2019, “It’s a different part of my life now,” comparing her first marriage with Reynolds. She further continued, “I feel like I’m in a place in my life [where] I’m able to make more active choices. I’m more present, I think, than I’ve been before,” reports Elle.
'I need to be with a compassionate person'
The ‘Goop’ interview further continued as Paltrow asked the ‘Lucy’ star, "How has your shift towards marriage or long-term relationships changed? What have you learned?"
Johansson’s reply was "It's funny," before adding, "I knew Colin for a long time, but only kind of through work. And when we first started seeing each other, I would never have probably been ready for a relationship like the one that I have with Colin at different times in my life because I wasn't comfortable with setting my own boundaries, and I didn't know what I wanted or needed from somebody else."
She continued to explain, "I think one of the things that I realized is that there are certain fundamental things in your own personality that you need — me, anyway, [that] I needed to share with the other person." She also explained how important it is to be “compassionate” in a relationship, "Obviously it's hard to be in a relationship anyway because you have to compromise all the time and sometimes your lives separate and come back together," before adding, "I never realized, 'Oh, it's really important for me, I need to be with a compassionate person. That's a fundamental characteristic that has to be there'."
The ‘Marriage Story’ actress, who is now clear of the “fundamental things” required in a marriage to be successful, continued, "Understanding what those fundamental things are that you need in a partner is a must, I think — for longevity, anyway.” "I think identifying those things was a game-changer for me," remarked the star.
Linking her marriage philosophy to her present husband, Jost, she said, "That's why it worked with Colin and I at that time — [because] I was finally able to step back and actually respect myself enough to know what those [fundamental] things were and be okay with it, you know? That was a life lesson," reports People.