.M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 thriller Split was actually intended to star Joaquin Phoenix metro in the lead role, however the star quit merely pair of full weeks before filming was due to start. James McAvoy, who managed for Phoenix metro, explained this unusual progression in a recent interview.Appearing on the Delighted Sad Bewildered podcast, McAvoy pointed out Phoenix metro is actually an "outstanding actor," and he would certainly have participated in the character in a different way coming from the Scottish star. Crack tells the tale of a male (McAvoy) who has 23 various individuals, thus anybody can comprehend how planning seems like it might be important to playing the function well. Yet McAvoy mentioned can be found in thus overdue while doing so was something of a relief since he couldn't over-prepare." I believe he will give an extremely different functionality to the one I did. But I believe he will offer a fabulous performance. Often coming in eleventh hour is actually the very best technique," he mentioned. "I think he ditched it like 2 full weeks just before they started firing. It was actually really eleventh hour. I had two weeks [to prep]" McAvoy happened to claim the Crack script was so well put-together that he really did not battle too much to understand what he intended to do in the movie, although he can be found in so overdue. McAvoy said there were a couple characters/personalities that "took a little bit longer to locate," but aside from that, he mentioned he failed to have a hard time a lot of to discover his footing and make the film Shyamalan as well as Blumhouse wanted.Split wasn't the final time Phoenix az left of a film right before filming, as he recently stopped a Todd Haynes romance movie merely 5 days before shooting. A document claimed Phoenix is actually likely to pay a low-seven-figure cost as a make-good, considering collections were currently helped make and also the motion picture was actually offered to suppliers when he quickly left.McAvoy superstars in the terror motion picture Speak No Misery, which remains in cinemas currently. When it comes to Phoenix metro, his next big movie is Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which comes to movie theaters in October.In various other headlines concerning McAvoy, the star additionally talked about how he auditioned for and might possess starred in the Harry Potter motion picture series, but picked to pass.