.M. Evening Shyamalan's 2016 mystery Split was actually meant to star Joaquin Phoenix ahead role, but the actor left only 2 full weeks before filming was due to start. James McAvoy, that took over for Phoenix, covered this unusual growth in a current interview.Appearing on the Happy Sad Overwhelmed podcast, McAvoy pointed out Phoenix is actually an "fantastic star," as well as he will have participated in the personality differently coming from the Scottish actor. Crack informs the tale of a man (McAvoy) who possesses 23 different individualities, thus any individual might know how prep work seems like it could be crucial to playing the duty well. However McAvoy claimed can be found in so overdue in the process was something of a relief because he couldn't over-prepare." I assume he would certainly offer an incredibly different efficiency to the one I performed. But I assume he will provide an astonishing performance. Sometimes being available in eleventh hour is actually the most ideal way," he stated. "I believe he abandoned it like 2 weeks before they started shooting. It was actually last minute. I possessed two full weeks [to prepare]" McAvoy took place to point out the Split manuscript was thus effectively put-together that he failed to battle too much to recognize what he intended to do in the movie, despite the fact that he was available in so late. McAvoy claimed there were a pair characters/personalities that "took a small amount longer to locate," but besides that, he claimed he failed to strain too much to find his ground and create the flick Shyamalan and Blumhouse wanted.Split wasn't the last opportunity Phoenix quit of a movie right before recording, as he recently quit a Todd Haynes love movie merely five days prior to filming. A record pointed out Phoenix az is actually very likely to pay for a low-seven-figure cost as a make-good, thinking about collections were actually made and also the movie was actually sold to distributors when he abruptly left.McAvoy stars in the horror motion picture Talk No Wickedness, which resides in cinemas now. When it comes to Phoenix metro, his following big movie is actually Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which comes to movie theaters in October.In other headlines concerning McAvoy, the actor also discussed how he auditioned for and also could possibly possess starred in the Harry Potter film series, yet opted for to pass.