Kate Winslet shuts down question about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s rekindled romance

Kate Winslet may be one of the world's most prominent screen actors, but when it comes to the behind-the-scenes gossip, she really couldn't care less. 

The Mare of Easttown star didn't take too kindly to being asked about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's rekindled romance in a recent interview, insisting she knows nothing about the celebrity couple's high-profile relationship. 

During a rapid-fire statement round with the New York Times, Kate was called to confirm or deny if she "can’t stop reading about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.” The bizarre question stunned the British actor, who has never even worked with the Hollywood stars. 

"What? No! I’ve never read about Jennifer in my life," she said. "What are these questions?” 

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She also dismissed the follow-up question, which asked her to comment on the statement, "Hideous Kinky was neither hideous nor kinky." The tongue-twister sentence referred to the 1998 drama, Hideous Kinky, in which Kate starred as the lead character. The film, which was based on a semi-autobiographical book by Sigmund Freud's granddaughter, solidified the versatility of the Titanic star in the wake of her performance in the blockbuster flick. 

"I don't even know how to answer these questions," she replied. 

Luckily, Kate isn't so shy about divulging incriminating details when it comes to her own life. 

In the same interview, she confessed to having a "potty mouth" just like her Mare of Easttown character, Mare Sheehan, and even stealing (and then losing) a pair of Rose's earrings from the Titanic set. Unfortunately, this slip-up wasn't a one-off. It seems keeping track of valuables—even extremely meaningful ones—isn't exactly Kate's forte. The Academy Award-winning actor went on to admit she doesn't know the exact location of her Oscar is, musing, "I think it's possibly in my son's bedroom." 

Kate also spoke out against the unrealistic beauty expectations of women today, which she tries to challenge by showing herself in her natural form. She even refused airbrushing of her 'bulgy' body in Mare of Easttown and ordered its promotional team to undo their retouches to her photo portraits. 

"Listen, I hope that in playing Mare as a middle-aged woman—I will be 46 in October—I guess that’s why people have connected with this character in the way that they have done because there are clearly no filters," Kate said. "She’s a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from. I think we’re starved of that a bit."