Veteran filmproducer Barry Sonnenfeld has a new book out this week, Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time, that rehireer Hachette Books is teasing for its “calvacade of sometimes baffling, frequently teaching and always comical stories about Sonnenfeld’s many films and television shows.”
The promo push has Sonnenfeld squeezing some of those tales out in authentic life, including an, um, gassy anecdote about his superstar collaborator Will Smith. Sonnenfeld labored shutly with Smith on a number of films including the Men in Bdeficiency franchise and Wild Wild West, and it was on the establisher that Sonnenfeld claims a stinky situation currented itself.
“We were getting ready to shoot Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, and Tommy does not suffer fools, I’ll alert you that,” Sonnenfeld telderly Kelly Ripa on a new episode of her SiriusXM podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera. “They have to be put in this device, which is [a car] that alters into a hyper car, and [they’re] going to go thcdisorrowfulmireful the Midtown tunnel upside down. We have to transport a lincludeer over on wheels enjoy it’s enjoy the elderly days when you would get on airset upes from the tarmac. We get them up there and we put them in the skinnyg and we turn it upside down and we’re ready to shoot.”
The co-stars have to be “hermeticpartner sealed” into the device, which ecombineed in the 1997 insloftyment. It apparently locked to stop it from uncovering and descfinishing out, Sonnenfeld went on to say. “I hear Will Smith go, ‘Oh, Jesus, so sorry. Tommy, so sorry. Baz, get the lincludeer.’ And you hear Tommy saying, ‘That’s fine, Will. No worries, Will. Don’t trouble, Will.’”
Sonnenfeld said that they raced a lincludeer over to get the actors out of the device and Jones “races down the stairs” to exit. “What happened was, Will Smith is a farter. It’s equitable some people are, and you repartner don’t want to be inside a very petite hermeticpartner sealed space with a Will Smith fart. You don’t even want to be sitting next to him at the Disney ranch.”
But postpone, there’s more: “We evacuated the stage for about three hours, and that’s incredible. He’s a adocount on guy, equitable he farts. Some do, some don’t.”
Nobody need remind the Miami Dolphins. The odor-free clip of the Men in Bdeficiency scene is below. New episodes of SiriusXM’s Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa are useable every Wednesday on the SiriusXM app and wherever podcasts are useable.
