Scarlett Johansson, 36, will be a mother for the second time, as confirmed by her husband and father of the baby, during a performance at the Ridgefield Playhouse, in Connecticut, United States.
"We're going to have a baby, it's exciting," said the actor and comedian, as revealed by the publication
Page Six
and which has also been echoed by British newspapers such as the
Daily Mail
.
The couple married in the fall of last year after three years of dating, in a low-key ceremony marked by restrictions due to the pandemic.
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In late June, the pregnancy rumors began to ring louder after Johansson was absent from various promotional acts for her latest film,
Black Widow
.
"It's amazing as it's a great Disney Marvel release and she's both the star and the executive producer," a source told
Page Six
a few weeks ago
.
Her participation in the feature film, currently in theaters, has led the actress to star in an arduous battle against Disney, whom she has sued for considering that the studio breached the contract for simultaneous broadcasting in cinemas and streaming the film, which would have caused millionaire losses of the percentage of collection at the box office.
Johansson already has a six-year-old daughter with her previous husband, the French journalist Romain Dauriac, with whom she faced in court over custody of the minor. Both the actress and Dauriac asked to take care of Rose Dorthy Dauriac, but in his case he also wanted to take her to France, claiming that the mother's work schedule would harm the girl. Finally, media coverage involved, the two reached an agreement whereby the artist was left with custody of Rose Dorothy.
Coincidence or not, that traumatic divorce - the second for the interpreter, who was previously married to Ryan Reynolds - coincided in time with one of her best performances on the big screen, that of an actress, Nicole, who faces a devious process of separation from her husband in
History of a marriage
. A character for whom she was nominated for an Oscars and with whose loneliness she claimed to have empathized. “There is a great loneliness in being a single mother, I have felt it in the past. There is that loneliness and that constant feeling of doubt, of not knowing what you are doing and of not having anyone to lean on to relaunch yourself (...) You also spend a lot of time alone with your daughter without the company of an adult, and it can be difficult if lasts a long time. You question your life, how did I get here? You don't feel like that all the time… but those moments come, ”he then told
USA Today
.