Colin Jost says he and Jonathan Bailey ‘have to kiss now’ after latter’s viral smooch with wife Scarlett Johansson

Jost joked that he and Bailey kissing might “close the loop” after Bailey kissed Johansson at a “Jurassic World Rebirth” event.

Colin Jost; Scarlett Johansson kissing Jonathan Bailey.Credit: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty; John Nacion/Variety via Getty

Colin Jost is flirting with the idea of kissing Jonathan Bailey to “close the loop” after the Bridgerton alum’s viral red carpet kiss with Jost’s wife, Scarlett Johansson, at a recent Jurassic World Rebirth event.

Following the on-screen pair’s comical smooch at the Jurassic World franchise’s June 17 premiere in London, Jost jokingly posed the idea that he, too, needs to lock lips with Bailey to complete the narrative.

In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchor initially reacted to a comically placed billboard in New York City that coincidentally positioned his wife with a firearm pointed at him.

Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis, Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett in ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’.Universal Pictures

“I don’t talk to the people in Time’s Square about anything,” Jost said. “It’s pretty great, it’s been a fun, lot of Jurassic press things that you didn’t expect this to be a story, but there’s a lot of stories coming out about it.”

When asked, on that note, about Bailey and Johansson kissing at the premiere, Jost quipped, “I was like, I guess in Jurassic Park terms, the attack always comes from the raptor you never thought was there. Of all the threats out there, I wasn’t thinking it was Jonathan!”

Jost added that “it’s going to be okay” because “people really blow it out of proportion if someone kisses their friend hello, it’s really nuts.”

He elaborated, noting that “Jonathan is an out, gay man” and that “it didn’t seem like the biggest threat” as a result.

“Jonathan and I were at the red carpet, we were like, I guess we have to kiss now? Close the loop?” he quipped.

Bailey, too, eventually addressed the viral kiss at a different Jurassic World Rebirth premiere event in New York City.

Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson at ‘SNL50’.NBC/Noam Galai/NBC via Getty

 “Absolutely, I believe in being able to show the love in all different ways and if you can’t kiss your friends… life is too short not to,” he told the same outlet.

Jurassic World Rebirth lit up the box office upon its July 2 release, grossing around $318 million globally in its debut. And while the film capitalizes on one of the most popular film franchises in history, the team told Entertainment Weekly in an interview that they attempted to move away from overt replication of what worked in the past.

“We did take a few things out from the original movies. I think [director] Gareth [Edwards] felt less encumbered by our desire to not quote ourselves. So he felt freer making references, and that was fine. But we tried not to. It’s a fine line,” writer David Koepp said. “There’s a few you want to acknowledge, first of all, that you exist in a world that those movies exist in. You don’t ever want anything that smacks of self-congratulatory or self-love or anything like that.”