A movie director claims that a shooting team had to be evacuated for three hours owing to flatulence created by actor Will Smith.
Men In Black director Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed Will in 1997, claims the Oscar-winning actor once broke wind so badly that an entire film set had to be evacuated for three hours.
According to the filmmaker, the incident occurred while Smith and co-star Tommy Lee Jones were in a changing vehicle that needed them to be ‘hermetically sealed’ in a pod.
He explained, “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?”
Barry went on to say, “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.”
He continued: “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 sitting next to him at the Disney ranch,” he emphasized.
He made the remarks while participating in the podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa.
Men in Black went on to become 1997’s third-highest grossing film, earning $584 million worldwide.
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