In perfect time, a camera then panned to the Avengers actress—who shares son Cosmo, 3, with Colin and is also a mom to daughter Rose, 10, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac—as she stood visibly shocked by the joke, mouthing the words, “Oh my God!”
“No, no, I’m just playin’, baby,” Colin continued, reading the joke from the cue cards and laughing. “You know I don’t go downtown.”
Months later, Scarlett, 41, opened up about her visceral reaction to the wisecrack.
“I just can’t believe that they went there,” the Jurassic World star told InStyle in an interview published March 11. “It was so vulgar. It was so gross. It was really gross. And, like, old-school gross.”
And even Colin acknowledged that perhaps the joke went too far.
“I’m in trouble I think with a lot of people,” he said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in January. “Scarlett was genuinely so shocked.”
“I was obviously surprised by everything,” he continued. “But they gave her a heads up and they were like ‘Hey would you be okay if Michael made kind of a little vagina joke at some point?’ and she’s like, ‘Sure, whatever I’m open to it.’”
And while he didn’t know where the joke was headed, as he’d read it for the first time live on air, he knew in the moment that it would raise eyebrows.
As Colin explained, “The graphic came up for Arby’s and so Scarlett is backstage like, ‘Oh my god, that’s what it is.'”
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