‘Men in Black’ director recalls something unhygienic Will Smith did onset Will Smith’s ‘Men in Black’ director remembered they ‘evacuated the stage because of the actor Will Smith once made the whole Men in Black cast and crew “evacuate” the set of the move “for about three hours.” The movie's director Barry Sonnenfeld recalled the unhygienic incident during an appearance on the Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa podcast, which happened because Will Smith passed wind. Smith starred in a lead role opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the blockbuster.
Sonnenfeld explained that the funny occurrence took place during filming of the scene where Smith and Jones are in a high-speed transforming car that flips over. To capture the sequence, the two actors had to be “hermetically sealed” inside a special pod designed to simulate the car. “There are locks to prevent it from opening and falling,” Sonnenfeld said.
“I say, ‘Roll camera.’ And I hear Will Smith go, ‘Oh Jesus, so sorry. Tommy, so sorry.
Baz, get the ladder.’ And you hear Tommy saying, ‘That’s fine, Will. No worries, Will.
Don’t worry, Will.’ Anyway, I don’t know what’s gone on, right?” “So we race the ladder over. Yeah, Tommy reaches his leg out as the ladder is coming over, races down the stairs.
And what happened was, Will Smith is a farter,” the director continued. “It’s just some people are. And you really don’t want to be inside a very small hermetically sealed s.
