Men In Black director Barry Sonnenfeld has claimed Will Smith farted so badly during the production of the 1997 sci-fi comedy that the set had to be evacuated “for about three hours.” Smith and Tommy Lee Jones co-starred in the box office hit that helped make the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor an A-list movie star. The actors portrayed Agent K and Agent J, respectively, who are tasked with investigating a series of alien incidents on earth.
Speaking on the podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa”, Sonnenfeld recalled that the incident occurred while they were filming a scene in which Smith and Jones were supposedly travelling in a car that was able to flip upside down at high speeds to drive along the roof of a tunnel. To pull off the stunt, the pair were “hermetically sealed” inside a pod. “There are locks to prevent it from opening and falling,” Sonnenfeld explained.
“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. “It’s just some people are. And you really don’t want to be inside a very small hermetically sealed space with a Will Smith fart.
You don’t even want to be sitti.
