Will Smith’s Farts

The topic came up on the latest episode of Kelly Ripa’s podcast, where she had director Barry Sonnenfeld as her guest.  Ripa asked Sonnenfeld for his “number one crazy story” from the ‘Men in Black’ franchise.  He went on to talk about an instance when filming had to be suspended after Will Smith farted while in a “hermetically sealed” contraption with Tommy Lee Jones.  This is part of what he said:

Will Smith is a farter. It’s just 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.

Notably, after he had narrated this incident, Ripa had this to ask:

Did the stench emit out, like, were you able to smell it?

And this:

You think he’s, like, on one of those high protein diets?