Jennifer Lopez was forced to deny dating her co-star in an unearthed interview.
The 53-year-old actress appeared alongside Ryan Guzman, 35, in erotic thriller The Boy Next Door back in 2015.
The film featured several raunchy sex scenes as 19-year-old Noah (Guzman) moved next door to newly separated teacher Chalire Peterson (Lopez).
In the film, J-Lo's character gives in to the forbidden attraction and they enjoy a night of passion.
The sex scenes in the film were so passionate that despite Ryan being 18 years J-Lo's junior, rumours quickly spread that they were dating.
And during a press junket for the movie, Jennifer was awkwardly forced to shut down the rumours in front of her co-star.
"There's enough stuff that goes on, then to be making stuff up... We don't need to make anything up," she told HuffPost Live at the time.
"The truth is, it's fine for us to say, 'No, we're not dating' because we're not. If we were dating and we didn't want to say it then we'd be like, 'We don't want to talk about it'.
"You can handle it in any way that feels good to you. At the end of the day you are still a human being, you're a person and then you have to lay down at night put your head on a pillow and feel good about what you're doing or what you did.
"Whatever that is for that person in that moment is what they should do."
Guzman added: "For me it was just like 'why is everybody asking all of these questions?'
"No one was interested in me, not even a couple months ago.
"It's crazy and I don't think either of us came in wanting fame or anything.
"Now that I'm starting to get some notoriety, and now that we're hanging out, and having fun, and just enjoying each other's time while promoting the film, people are speculating and creating their own stories for us without us even speaking."
At the time, J-Lo was dating dancer Casper Smart as she rebounded from her divorce from Marc Anthony.
Last year Jennifer married Ben Affleck in July last year after reigniting their romance almost 20 years after first being engaged.
Recently, the actress has faced mounting speculation that there was trouble in paradise after her and husband Ben Affleck were caught looking less than happy with each other while promoting her new Netflix movie The Mother.
The new action thriller movie, features Jennifer as an assassin who gave up her daughter a number of years ago. Now, she works to protect her from evil.
The couple were photographed in what was seemingly tense exchange at one point at the Westwood Regency Village Theater.
However, a source close to the couple has since dismissed the speculation and revealed Ben left his wife on the carpet following their animated interaction to meet some of their respective kids while J-Lo continued with the promotion.
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