Overview

• Dave Franco disclosed the details on July 30 while promoting his horror film Together on the Call Her Daddy podcast
• Both actors were scripted to grab each other’s crotches in the scene, and Efron’s thumb dislocated under the force
• Franco stressed the injury was due to an awkward angle, not any real arousal as rumors had suggested
• Zac Efron first mentioned breaking his hand during the same scene on The Tonight Show in 2014, joking about the Franco brothers’ “balls of steel”
• Franco’s account has renewed attention on behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the Neighbors set