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Will Smith’s Fart Led to Three-Hour Stage Evacuation on ‘Men in Black’ Set

Will Smith / Photo: THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images
Will Smith / Photo: THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images

*Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of “Men in Black,” recently shared a humorous anecdote on the Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa podcast, revealing that the set of the 1997 action comedy had to be evacuated after Will Smith farted.

According to Variety, Sonnenfeld explained that the incident took place while filming a scene in which Smith and co-star Tommy Lee Jones were sealed inside a pod designed to represent a transforming car that moves at high speeds and flips over. 

“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?”

He continued, “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 faster. 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,” the director recalled. 

“We evacuated the stage for about three hours. And that’s incredible. No, he’s, you know, a lovely guy. Just, he farts. Some do, some don’t,” Sonnenfeld said.

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“Men in Black” grossed $584 million globally, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 1997. Smith previosuly explained that he was initially against accepting the role for the movie but Steven Spielberg, who served as executive producer on the project, convinced him to do it.

“Steven Spielberg sent a helicopter for me,” Smith said on Kevin Hart’s Hart to Heart show. “I was in New York. To talk to me…. It landed at his house. And he had me at hello…. And it was the first time I ever had lemonade with carbonated water. You can’t say no to that.”

“He said the coldest sh*t,” the actor continued. “He said, ‘Tell me, tell me why you don’t want to make my movie. And he was the producer…. And he put the ellipsis at the end, it was the dot, dot, dot…. If he had continued, he would have said, ‘Joker, you know I made Jaws, right? You know I made E.T.’”

Smith starred as Agent J in three “Men in Black” movies.

Listen to Sonnenfeld’s full interview on the podcast here.

READ MORE FROM EURWEB.COM: Will Smith Reveals ‘I Am Legend’ Flashbacks While Walking Through Empty Zürich Streets | Watch

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