Barry Sonnenfeld says Will Smith’s farts on the set of Men in Black truly compelled them to evacuate the set for 3 hours.

Everybody farts. That’s only a reality. Some do it greater than others, however I don’t know the way many individuals could cause an precise evacuation with one. While talking on the Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast, Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld revealed that Will Smith as soon as brought on a three-hour-long evacuation with considered one of his farts on the set of the 1997 film. That’s… spectacular?

Barry Sonnenfeld stated that the fart in query occurred throughout a scene in which Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones had been “hermetically sealed” in a pod used for filming the reworking automotive. “There are locks to prevent it from opening and falling,” Sonnenfeld stated. “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 high-quality, Will. No worries, Will. Don’t fear, Will.’ Anyway, I don’t know what’s gone on, proper?“

Sonnenfeld continued, “So we race the ladder over. Yeah, Tommy reaches his leg out because the ladder is coming over, races down the steps. And what occurred was, Will Smith is a sooner. It’s just a few individuals are. And you actually don’t need to be inside a really small hermetically sealed house with a Will Smith fart. You don’t even need to be sitting subsequent to him on the Disney ranch. We evacuated the stage for about three hours. And that’s unbelievable. No, he’s, , a stunning man. Just, he farts. Some do, some don’t.“

Tommy Lee Jones would return to star alongside Will Smith for Men in Black II and Men in Black 3, so clearly, these intense farts weren’t a deal breaker. The final movie in the franchise, Men in Black: International, was the primary to not function Smith or Jones. It starred Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson and moved the placement to the London department of MiB. Unfortunately, the movie was a crucial and monetary disappointment and spelled the top of the Men in Black franchise, at the very least for now. There was a possible Men in Black/21 Jump Street crossover film in the works, nevertheless it was finally scrapped.