In a short oral historical past about “The Factor” for LA Weekly, Keith David defined how the automotive crash difficult the preliminary filming. “I acquired right into a automotive accident proper earlier than my first day of capturing, and I broke my hand,” he defined. “By the point I needed to be at work within the morning, my hand had swollen as much as the scale of a boxing glove.” Clearly, Childs will not be speculated to have a severely swollen hand whereas battling aliens at Outpost 31, so naturally, David was nervous about exhibiting his real-life damage to director John Carpenter the following day. David mentioned:

“I might see John Carpenter and [producer] Larry Franco on the set, so I attempted to cover my hand behind my again. However I could not operate as a result of it harm so unhealthy. So, as I walked very slowly in direction of them, I let my hand drop to my facet. Their eyes grew to the scale of saucers once they noticed my hand. “What occurred to you?!” They instantly despatched me to the hospital, the place they put two pins in my hand.”

The damage did not stop David from filming, however they did should give you intelligent methods of disguising his hand on set. “I placed on a surgical glove to cowl my stitches, and placed on a black glove over it that was painted to match my pores and skin.” David additionally mentioned that due to his damaged hand, “you by no means see [his] left hand within the first a part of the film.” However similar to how Childs disappears for a very long time within the movie’s second half, if we’re unable to keep watch over his’ left hand from the beginning, how can we make certain it hasn’t been contaminated by … the Factor?