Will Smith Fart Shuts Down Movie Set

Men in Black filmmaker shares a story about Will Smith stinking up the set so bad they had to shut down for three hours...

From Entertainment Weekly

Will Smith and costar Tommy Lee Jones were sitting alone in a futuristic hypercar while filming a Men in Black scene, filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld recounted in an interview with Kelly Ripa on her podcast Let's Talk Off Camera.

"We have to bring a ladder over on wheels like the old days when you would get on airplanes from the tarmac, and we get them up there and we put them in the thing and we turn it upside down, and we're ready to shoot," the director recalled. "And they're hermetically sealed in this space, and 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!'"

Sonnenfeld said that Jones reacted to Smith calmly. "You hear Tommy saying, 'That's fine, Will. No worries, Will. Don't worry, Will,'" he recalled. "I don't know what's going on. So we race the ladder over. Tommy reaches his leg out as the ladder is coming over, races down the stairs."

The source of the emergency: "Will Smith is a farter," Sonnenfeld said. "Some people are. And you really don't wanna be inside a very small hermetically sealed space with a Will Smith fart. You don't even wanna be sitting next to him at the Disney ranch."

The stench was so potent that the cast and crew cleared the area. "We evacuated the stage for, about 3 hours," Sonnenfeld recalled. "He's, you know, a lovely guy. Just, he farts."