‘Males In Black’ Director Says Will Smith Incident Shut Down Set For 3 Hours – The Boston Courier

Will Smith by accident deployed a organic stink bomb in the course of the making of “Men in Black,” in keeping with director Barry Sonnenfeld.

Throughout Wednesday’s episode of the podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa,” the filmmaker revealed how the set of the 1997 blockbuster needed to be cleared out for hours after Smith handed some critical fuel throughout a scene with co-star Tommy Lee Jones.

The incident went down whereas Smith and Jones have been filming inside an hermetic pod that served because the ultra-futuristic automobile for his or her respective characters, Brokers J and Okay.

As Sonnenfeld recalled on the podcast, “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.’”

Whereas Jones was well mannered about his solid mate’s flatulence, the filmmaker stated the “No Country for Old Men” actor virtually jumped out of the pod, which was outfitted with “locks to prevent it from opening and falling” throughout pictures the place the set piece was flipped the other way up.

“So we race the ladder over. Tommy, like, reaches his leg out as the ladder is coming over, races down the stairs,” Sonnenfeld stated. “And what happened was — Will Smith is a farter.”

“It’s just some people are [farters],” he continued. “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 “Enchanted” producer added.

It seems Smith’s fart was so pungent that the movie crew “evacuated the stage for about three hours.”

Nonetheless, Sonnenfeld wasn’t holding the Oscar winner’s stinkfest in opposition to him, telling Ripa, “No, he’s, you know, a lovely guy. Just, he farts. Some do, some don’t.”

The smelly incident didn’t cease the director from desirous to collaborate with Smith once more. They paired up for 2 “Men in Black” sequels, in addition to the 1999 film “Wild Wild West.”