.M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 thriller Split was actually expected to star Joaquin Phoenix metro in the lead job, yet the star quit simply pair of full weeks before shooting resulted from start. James McAvoy, who took over for Phoenix az, discussed this unique progression in a latest interview.Appearing on the Pleased Sad Baffled podcast, McAvoy pointed out Phoenix az is actually an "amazing star," and also he will possess played the character differently coming from the Scottish actor. Split says to the story of a man (McAvoy) who has 23 various individualities, thus any person can comprehend exactly how planning sounds like it could be critical to playing the duty effectively. But McAvoy stated coming in so late while doing so was one thing of a relief considering that he could not over-prepare." I believe he would certainly provide a quite different efficiency to the one I performed. However I believe he would certainly provide an awesome efficiency. Occasionally being available in last minute is the best method," he mentioned. "I presume he abandoned it like two full weeks prior to they started firing. It was actually definitely eleventh hour. I possessed two full weeks [to prep]" McAvoy went on to mention the Split text was actually thus well put-together that he really did not strain a lot of to comprehend what he wanted to perform in the film, although he was available in therefore late. McAvoy claimed there were actually a married couple characters/personalities that "took a bit longer to locate," however other than that, he stated he really did not battle too much to find his footing and also create the film Shyamalan and Blumhouse wanted.Split had not been the last time Phoenix metro dropped out of a film right just before shooting, as he lately quit a Todd Haynes romance movie simply 5 days just before filming. A record mentioned Phoenix az is actually most likely to pay for a low-seven-figure cost as a make-good, considering sets were already created as well as the movie was marketed to representatives when he suddenly left.McAvoy stars in the terror film Speak No Wickedness, which remains in cinemas right now. As for Phoenix az, his upcoming major film is actually Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which comes to theatres in October.In other updates concerning McAvoy, the actor also went over exactly how he auditioned for as well as can have starred in the Harry Potter motion picture set, but decided on to pass.