Men in Black set was cleared for 3 hours. Reason? Will Smith's fart

Hollywood star Will Smith is a 'farter,' Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld claimed in a recent interview. The filmmaker shared that the set had to evacuated for three long hours after Smith did the deed.

In Short

• Will Smith's fart caused a three-hour set evacuation
• Incident occurred during a sealed car scene in Men in Black
• The Men in Black director shared the story on Kelly Ripa's podcast

Hollywood star Will Smith holds a lot of influence. One of them is making people evacuate sets for three long hours. At least that is what Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld claimed in a recent interview. The filmmaker shared that after Smith farted, the film set of Men in Black had to be evacuated for not one, two, but three hours.

Speaking on the Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa podcast, the MIB director shared that the incident occurred when Smith and his co-star Tommy Lee Jones were sealed in a pod for a car sequence. “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 going on, right?” Sonnenfeld said.

“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,” the director added.

Sonnenfeld continued to recount the specific details regarding the amusing incident and stated, "So (yeah), 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," he concluded on a light note.

Men in Black starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in lead roles and released in 1997. The film collected $584 million globally and was declared as the third-highest grossing movie of that year, helping Smith achieve the status of a global superstar.