“Are you kidding?” Michael asked, surprised at the news. “Oh, that’s amazing. All right. This is cool. This is so cool.” They both appear in separate Marvel movies but joined forces in Avengers: Endgame when their individual storylines collided.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of Finding Your Roots, shared that they are related through Scarlett’s maternal side, sharing “identical branches of DNA on four different chromosomes.”
The branches of their shared DNA “appear on Scarlett’s maternal lines, which stretch back to Jewish communities in Eastern Europe,” Michael was told.
“That’s incredible. Well, I look forward to seeing Scarlett next time!” he responded. ~ Mackenzie Heidrick