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

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

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.

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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.

Sonnenfeld, 71, recalled that Smith and his costar Tommy Lee Jones, who portrays Agent K, were filming a scene where a car they were traveling in at super high speeds transforms. To get the shot, Jones,

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.

Barry Sonnenfeld says Will Smith's farts on the set of Men in Black actually forced them to evacuate the set for three hours.

Whoever smelt it, dealt it? On the Wednesday, October 2, episode of SiriusXM’s“Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa,” Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld told host Kelly Ripa that Will Smith’s flatulence caused them to press pause while filming the movie.