Scarlett Johnasson has lastly damaged her silence on a weird hearsay about her that has existed in Hollywood for fairly a while. In line with the hearsay, Scarlett and actor Benicio del Toro allegedly had intercourse in an elevator after an awards present. The actor spoke concerning the 'outrageous' story and why it's absurd in a current interplay. Additionally learn: When Scarlett refused to be paid much less for Avengers 2 and RDJ backed her

The hearsay reportedly originated and gained prominence after Benicio's somewhat cryptic response to a suggestive query throughout an interview a number of years in the past. On being jokingly requested if he had intercourse with Scarlett in an elevator after an awards present, Benicio repeated the query after which added, "I type of like, you understand, I, nicely. I do not know. Let's depart that to any individual's creativeness. Let's not put it up for sale. I am certain it has occurred earlier than. It may not be the final time both." The interview was with the Esquire journal.

On Tuesday, talking on TheSkimm's 9 to 5ish podcast, Scarlett addressed the 'outrageous' hearsay however with out naming Benicio. "That was a narrative that adopted me for a very long time. However I all the time thought that was outrageous. I used to be all the time pondering to myself. That may be powerful. It is a very quick interval, the logistics of that appear so unappealing to me."

The Black Widow star added that she is somebody who's petrified of being caught doing the fallacious factor which made that hearsay much more absurd. "I am an individual who's fearful of being caught doing one thing I am not alleged to be doing. In order that made the story even that rather more absurd to me," she added.

Benicio and Scarlett labored in Avengers: Infinity Warfare collectively however didn't share display house. Scarlett reprised her position as Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow within the movie whereas Benicio had a cameo as Taneleer Tivan aka The Collector. Nonetheless, the 2 had been by no means romantically linked. Scarlett has been married to author and comic Colin Jost since 2020 and have a son collectively.