“There are locks to prevent it from opening and falling,” Sonnenfeld told Ripa, 54. “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.’ ”

N early 30 years after its release, Men in Black remains one of Will Smith’s best movies, though it took some convincing from Steven Spielberg for him to sign on. There’s a lo

"You really don't wanna be inside a very small hermetically sealed space with a Will Smith fart," the filmmaker said.

Men in Black” director Barry Sonnenfeld appeared on the "Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa" podcast and revealed the set of the 1997 action comedy once had to be evacuated “for about three hours” because Will Smith farted.

Will Smith once made the whole Men in Black cast and crew “evacuate” the set of the move “for about three hours.”The movie's director Barry Sonnenfeld recalled

During the scene where Smith's Agent J and Jones' Agent K were driving upside down the Midtown tunnel, they had to be hermetically sealed into the fake car on set. That's when Smith accidentally let a fart rip while he and Jones were stuck inside.

A nuclear-level fart from Will Smith that halted production on Men in Black for three hours. The gas was passed while shooting the upside-down car scene, which necessitated a rig in which Smith and Tommy Lee Jones had to be hermetically sealed.

You really don’t want to be inside a very small hermetically sealed space with a Will Smith fart,’ said Barry Sonnenfeld