Celebs That Farted On Set

In the magical world of on-screen storytelling, a great many realities are blissfully hidden away. Even reality shows know better than to show the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's probably for the best given that the amount of celebs that farted on set — openly and proudly — is surprisingly substantial. Sometimes it can kind of ruin the fantasy of the famous folks we hold up on admittedly bizarre pedestals. Surely, these people don't produce the same stinks and trouser tremors that the rest of us do? 

Oh, but they do. Sometimes these "accidents" are so impressive that they're even kept in the final cut of something. Case in point? The Backstreet Boys once integrated one of Howie Dorough's farts into the song "The Call." Fellow band member AJ McLean told Billboard that the Backstreet Boy turned into a backdraft boy when he farted "on the beat" and "in key" in such a way that producer Max Martin was able to transform the flatulence into a heavy bass effect. Something that surely prompted Dorough to request that Martin, Quit playing games with my fart (sorry). 

Sadly, not every fart is quite as fruitful or lucrative, however. But let's be honest, they're almost always funny. So, crack open a window and maybe even strap on a sturdy gas mask, because these are all the celebs that farted on set, and what happened when they let one rip...

Paul Rudd's spontaneous stinker was good, but it doesn't hold a candle to Benicio Del Toro's impressive farting feats on the set of "The Usual Suspects." In the one of its most iconic scenes, the film's criminals find themselves uncontrollably cracking up with laughter during a police line-up. Apparently, they weren't acting. On the DVD commentary for the film, actor Kevin Pollack confirmed that the laughter was real and that gas had galvanized their giggles because Del Toro had "farted like 12 takes in a row" (via Screen Rant).

As reported by CinemaBlend, the intention for the original scene was for it to be played straight. However, editor John Ottman left the moment in because it worked so well — the farts may be inaudible in the final cut, but the camaraderie it caused among the actors arguably made the scene one of the best of its kind. On Twitter, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie even credited Del Toro's criminal colon claps as having "solved a major script issue" for him. 

The film needed a scene of the suspects bonding — something which he believed "stops the story cold." Instead, Del Toro's trouser rumbles naturally bonded the characters, because farts are the funniest thing in the world when someone — like director Bryan Singer — is telling you to be serious. "Since then I've held to the belief that sometimes you're good," McQuarrie wrote in the since-deleted tweet (via Far Out). "[And] sometimes someone farts."

Within the nightmarish confines of Robert Eggers' period seamen dark comedy "The Lighthouse," one repetitive noise sours the isolating space: The roaring rips of Willem Dafoe's character's backend. Naturally, the actor is a legit thespian, and so he conjured his body's own personal foghorn to deliver authentic blasts of gas as and when necessary.

During an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Dafoe suggested his vegetarian diet helped with his err ... delivery. However, he was humble in taking too much credit for the brown haze of the final noises, suggesting, "For the most part they were added in post-production." Speaking to Den of Geek, he further suggested that "half" of the farts heard on screen were actually his. But is that the complete truth?

Describing the film's fart noises as "bespoke flatulence," the movie's supervising sound editor Damian Volpe called the character's anal barks "the mystery of the lighthouse," and appeared to dispute Dafoe's "claims that they were his actual farts." Instead, he told Vulture, "I think I'm the only one who knows where the flatulence comes from." Whether the film's final farts were those executed by Dafoe is perhaps beside the point — what's clear from the actor's own anecdotes is that he was most definitely letting rip on set, whether they kept the final cut of him cutting one, or not.

Sadly, not every celebrity that farts on set is worthy of an Academy Award. But they still make for a great anecdote, regardless. During filming of "The Da Vinci Code," co-stars Paul Bettany and Tom Hanks came away with a great one, after a fight scene ended with the unholy sound of a rectal relic. 

The incident took place while the two were filming a scene where Bettany had to punch Hanks in the stomach. Relaying the story on "The Late Late Show," the British MCU star stated that it was "very quiet on set" because when stunts are going down everyone "is worried somebody's gonna get hurt" (via the Independent). Apparently, nobody was concerned about what actually happened, when America's most wholesome star "farted really, really, really loudly." As Bettany mused to James Corden, he was unsure how to respond and said, "What do you do when the biggest movie star in the world farts?"

As Hanks fondly recalled with great humor on "The Graham Norton Show," one appropriate response might have just been laughter. "When I hit the floor, I farted," he stated proudly, before adding that it's why nobody really asks him to do such scenes in films. "When it comes down to fight scenes, I get cast as the pie eater," he told the Irish talk show host. Regrettably, the fart wasn't kept in the movie.

Long before Chris Pratt became the internet's least favorite Chris and he started voicing every cherished cartoon character of your childhood, there was Andy Dwyer — the actor's beloved bumbling everyman from "Parks and Recreation." Behind the scenes, Pratt was renowned for being one of the silliest members of the entire cast. During the show's run, its blooper reels were consistently stacked full of hilarious outtakes featuring the actor cracking everyone up on set with his improvisations and behavior: Such as his legendarily awful farts. 

In one blooper, for instance, Pratt joined forces with co-star Nick Offerman to perform what a disgusted Aziz Ansari called a "one-two-punch" combo of a fart so loud and audible it ruined a take (via MTV News). In another, the actor produced a horrifying brown bubbler of a noise with such sustained duration and power that he joked he'd "s*** [his] pants on camera." Believable. 

In 2019, the cast reunited for a PaleyFest presentation celebrating the show, where Aubrey Plaza didn't hesitate in pointing the finger at the worst on-set farters. When asked by Offerman which cast member made her favorite noises with his or her body, the actor pointed her finger sharply at the culprits. "Nick and Pratt use to fart all the time," she said (via ET). "And it would make Amy [Poehler] and I really angry! So I don't appreciate that question." Somebody should have complained to the environmental department of the Pawnee town officials...

From one confined space gaseous hellscape to another, with the delightful story of Will Smith's apparently horrific honkers on the set of "Men in Black." During an oral history of the film's "Sugar Water" scene with Vulture, director Barry Sonnenfeld recalled that "Will has really nasty farts," with one in particular bringing the set to a standstill. 

As described by the director, Smith and co-star Tommy Lee Jones were in a rig "on a green-screen stage," filming the Midtown Tunnel sequence, wherein their car goes upside down and drives on the ceiling. The crew managed to get the rig upside down after "about 10 minutes' worth of work" and were ready to shoot when Smith began to apologize and asked that they be immediately removed. Sonnenfeld explained that Smith had "farted so bad in this enclosed space," but that somehow his co-star "played it cool" and was affable about the incident despite the stench. "But man, as soon as we opened it up, Tommy was outta there," he added. 

Smith's gastrointestinal issues are renowned within his own family. During an episode of "Red Table Talk," the actor made the worrying revelation that he "can go three days without" a bowel movement, prompting some concern from his son, Jaden Smith, who commented, "That is not good! That's why your farts smell like that!" (via Decider). Never mind having a memory wiper, these people need a stench wiper!

It's unclear what the catering situation was like on the set of post-apocalyptic comedy "Last Man on Earth," but whatever they were serving was clearly a recipe for apocalyptic air biscuits courtesy of the cast. Will Forte, for instance, once revealed that co-star Mary Steenburgen set him "a challenge ... to audibly fart every single day on set" — a feat that he capably and proudly achieved.

Sharing his brag on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," the actor explained exactly how he delivered this impressive dare of digestive linguistics. "There are different degrees of privacy involved," he told Seth Meyers. "So, sometimes it's very public and sometimes it's just like, 'Hey Mary, come here... .'" If farts be the language of love on this set, then another of Forte's co-stars was shooting cupid's arrows his way during the filming of an intimate scene. 

Kristen Schaal made an appearance on a different episode of "Late Night with Seth Meyers," where she described an incident in which she let one rip on Forte. The scene in question required the comedian to "aggressively [and] sexually talk" to Forte's character — a task that required "a lot of diaphragm work." The performance prompted a bean rumble "in the danger zone," and the actor couldn't help herself. "I just looked at Will and I was like, 'I'm gonna fart on you.' And I did." It's a level of professional intimacy that all the greats surely aspire to. 

For many, Channing Tatum is represented by one core image: The actor using his gyrating body to spank an entire woodwork studio while grinding to Ginuwine's "Pony" in "Magic Mike." It's a masterful scene: Please, give yourself a moment to drench in its memory. It's also with great apology that we have to dash this image for another. During the filming of "21 Jump Street," Tatum was apparently a chronic farter on set and terrorized his co-stars with them. 

The putrid accusation came courtesy of Jake Johnson, who was asked by People what "one of his favorite memories was" while filming the 2012 movie. For whatever reason, he suggested that being the subject of Tatum's chronic gastric attacks was apparently it for him and proceeded to divulge how his co-star welcomed him on set. "I was my first scene, and Channing kept ripping the grossest farts I have ever smelled," Johnson explained. "[He was] dying laughing and cupping them and throwing them at Jonah [Hill] and myself." 

While there appears to be no other evidence around that Tatum's bottom is anything less than delightful, during promotion of "22 Jump Street," one particular video appeared to suggest Hill complaining of Tatum's bodily functions. At the beginning of a chat with Pathé, the actor quipped that he "love[s] when they just turn the fan off" to leave himself and Tatum in a "hot, small, fart-smelling room." Not to point fingers, but Tatum looked awfully amused...