Will Smith forced evacuation on ‘Men In Black’ set after farting

Men In Black director Barry Sonnenfeld has said he once had to evacuate the set on the movie after Will Smith farted.

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Speaking on the podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa, Sonnenfeld recalled that the incident occurred when they were filming a scene in the 1997 film in which Smith and co-star Tommy Lee Jones were seen travelling in a car that flipped upside down at high speeds along the roof of a tunnel.

According to the director, the pair had to be hermetically sealed into a fake car on set for the scene.

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?

“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 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. You don’t even want to be sitting next to him at the Disney ranch. We evacuated the stage for about three hours.”

Smith recently revealed how Steven Spielberg convinced him to star in Men In Black, despite the actor having reservations about the project.

“I kind of understood Men in Black a little bit but I didn’t want to make Men in Black,” Smith said. “That was the next year after Independence Day. So I didn’t want to make two alien movies back to back.”

However, Smith revealed that Spielberg contacted him directly and sent a helicopter so they could speak face-to-face. “I was in New York. It landed at his house. And, like, he had me at hello,” the actor said. “And it was the first time I ever had lemonade with carbonated water. You can’t say no to that.”

Meanwhile, it was recently confirmed that Smith is set to be a producer on a new feature film biography of the legendary hip-hop pioneer Queen Latifah.

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