Scarlett Johansson Says Dating Non-Actors Brought 'Challenges' Because of 'Jealousy'

Scarlett Johansson says she counts "jealousy" as a reason that relationships between actors and those who aren't in the industry rarely work out.

The actress spoke with her Black Widow castmate David Harbour for a new Interview Magazine cover story and answered candidly when she was asked about mainly dating "artists." Johansson, who was previously married to Ryan Reynolds and Romain Dauriac, wed her current husband, Colin Jost, in 2020.

Johansson shared that she's has "serious relationships with people that were not in the industry" and recalled that one of the "challenges" was that her partners were unaware of what she "needed to do" as an entertainer.

"Obviously, if I was dating an oncologist, I wouldn’t know what they needed to do for their job," she explained. "But it’s not so abstract."

She added that it's "easy" to "create a lot of jealousy" between mismatched partners "because actors by nature are very free-spirited and they create very intimate relationships with people at work."

"They can be loyal to a partner and also very engaged in all these other kinds of relationships, and I think it can be a blurry line for some people," she said. "Also, to have a relationship with the public can be a complicated thing for people outside of the industry to understand."

Two years ago, Johansson spoke on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop podcast about how she fell for her now-husband, who's a Saturday Night Live staff writer.

"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 [now] at different times in my life because I wasn't comfortable setting my own boundaries," the actress told Paltrow, per PopSugar. "I didn't know not only what I wanted but what I needed from somebody else. I think one of the things I realized is that there are certain fundamental things in your own personality you need—for me, anyway—that I needed to share with the other person."