How Will Smith farted on set and drove everyone away for hours”— Director spills

American film producer, Barry Sonnenfeld has narrated how a film crew was forced to leave the vicinity after actor, Will Smith polluted the air.

Barry revealed this during his appearance on the podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa.

Barry Sonnenfeld is popularly known to be the director of many’s favourite movie, Men In Black. He Collaborated with Will Smith in 1997. According to him, the Oscar-winning actor once emitted such a odor that the entire film set had to be cleared for three hours.

Sonnenfeld recounted that the incident occurred while Smith and his co-star Tommy Lee Jones were situated in a transforming vehicle that necessitated being ‘hermetically sealed’ within a pod.

He elaborated, “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 further explained, “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 added, “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 stressed.

Men in Black ultimately became the third-highest-grossing film of 1997, earning $584 million globally.