Director Barry Sonnenfeld has claimed that a film crew had to be evacuated for three hours due to actor Will Smith’s flatulence.
Sonnenfeld, who directed Smith in Men In Black in 1997, recounted that the incident occurred while Smith and co-star Tommy Lee Jones were inside a transforming car that had to be “hermetically sealed.”
He recalled, “There are locks to prevent it from opening and falling. 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?”
Sonnenfeld added, “So we race the ladder over, Tommy reaches his leg out as the ladder is coming over, and 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.”
He emphasized, “You don’t even want to be sitting next to him at the Disney ranch.”
Sonnenfeld made these comments during an appearance on the podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa. Men in Black went on to become the third-highest-grossing film of 1997, earning $584 million worldwide.
