.M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 mystery Split was supposed to star Joaquin Phoenix az in the lead job, but the actor quit merely pair of weeks before filming resulted from start. James McAvoy, who took over for Phoenix, explained this unique advancement in a recent interview.Appearing on the Happy Sad Baffled podcast, McAvoy said Phoenix metro is an "amazing actor," and also he will possess participated in the character differently coming from the Scottish actor. Split informs the story of a male (McAvoy) who possesses 23 different individuals, so anybody might know how prep work seems like it could be vital to participating in the part properly. Yet McAvoy mentioned being available in so overdue in the process was actually one thing of an alleviation because he couldn't over-prepare." I assume he would certainly offer an extremely different performance to the one I carried out. Yet I believe he would certainly give an unbelievable performance. At times can be found in eleventh hour is actually the greatest method," he pointed out. "I assume he dumped it like pair of weeks prior to they began firing. It was actually actually eleventh hour. I had pair of full weeks [to ready]" McAvoy took place to point out the Crack text was therefore effectively put-together that he really did not struggle too much to comprehend what he wanted to do in the film, although he came in so overdue. McAvoy pointed out there were actually a pair characters/personalities that "took a small amount longer to discover," however besides that, he stated he didn't battle a lot of to find his ground and make the film Shyamalan and Blumhouse wanted.Split had not been the final opportunity Phoenix az quit of a film right before recording, as he just recently stopped a Todd Haynes romance film simply five days before shooting. A document mentioned Phoenix is likely to pay a low-seven-figure fee as a make-good, thinking about collections were actually already created and the movie was offered to reps when he suddenly left.McAvoy stars in the horror flick Communicate No Wickedness, which is in cinemas right now. When it comes to Phoenix, his upcoming large movie is Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which involves theaters in October.In various other information about McAvoy, the actor also talked about exactly how he auditioned for and can have starred in the Harry Potter motion picture series, but chose to pass.