Will Smith Fart on “Men in Black Forced Three Hour Evacuation.”

Veteran filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld has a new book coming out this week. Best possible place, worst possible timewhich publisher Hachette Books teases for its “troop of sometimes confusing, often insightful and always funny stories about Sonnenfeld's many films and television shows.”

The promo push sees Sonnenfeld bring some of those stories into real life, including an, um, cheesy anecdote about his superstar collaborator Will Smith. Sonnenfeld worked closely with Smith on a number of films, including “The Men in Black Franchise and Wild Wild Westand in the former case, according to Sonnenfeld, a stinking situation arose.

“We were getting ready to shoot Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, and Tommy suffers no fools, I tell you that,” Sonnenfeld told Kelly Ripa on a new episode of her SiriusXM podcast Let's talk off camera. “They have to be put into this device [a car] that transforms into a hypercar, and [they’re] I'll walk headfirst through the Midtown Tunnel. We have to bring a ladder on wheels, like the old days when you boarded planes from the tarmac. We get them up there, put them in the thing, turn it over and be ready to shoot.”

The co-stars had to be “hermetically sealed” inside the device that appeared in the 1997 episode. It was apparently locked to prevent it from opening and falling out, Sonnenfeld said. “I hear Will Smith saying, ‘Oh my God, I’m so sorry. Tommy, I'm so sorry. “Baz, get the ladder.” And you hear Tommy say, “That's okay, Will.” Don't worry, Will. Don't worry, Will.'”

Sonnenfeld said they ran up a ladder to get the actors out of the device and Jones “ran down the stairs” to leave the room. “What happened is that Will Smith is a farter. It's just that some people do that, and you really don't want to be in a very small, hermetically sealed room with a Will Smith fart. You don’t even want to sit next to him at the Disney ranch.”

But wait, there's more: “We evacuated the stage for about three hours, and it's unbelievable. He's a nice guy, he just farts. Some do, some don’t.”

No one needs to remind the Miami Dolphins of this. The odor-free clip of the Men in Black Scene is below. New episodes from SiriusXM Let's talk to Kelly Ripa off camera are available every Wednesday on the SiriusXM app and wherever podcasts are available.