.M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 mystery Crack was meant to star Joaquin Phoenix metro ahead character, however the actor quit just pair of full weeks before filming resulted from begin. James McAvoy, that took over for Phoenix az, covered this unusual development in a current interview.Appearing on the Delighted Sad Overwhelmed podcast, McAvoy said Phoenix is actually an "remarkable star," as well as he will have played the personality in different ways coming from the Scottish actor. Split says to the tale of a guy (McAvoy) who possesses 23 different characters, thus anyone can recognize how prep work seems like it may be critical to playing the job properly. But McAvoy said coming in therefore overdue while doing so was one thing of an alleviation due to the fact that he couldn't over-prepare." I assume he 'd give an extremely different performance to the one I did. Yet I assume he will offer an awesome functionality. At times being available in last minute is actually the greatest method," he pointed out. "I presume he discarded it like pair of full weeks just before they began shooting. It was actually really eleventh hour. I had 2 weeks [to ready]" McAvoy happened to say the Crack text was thus effectively put-together that he didn't strain excessive to know what he wanted to do in the film, despite the fact that he was available in therefore overdue. McAvoy pointed out there were a married couple characters/personalities that "took a little longer to find," but apart from that, he claimed he failed to have a hard time way too much to discover his ground and make the motion picture Shyamalan and also Blumhouse wanted.Split wasn't the last time Phoenix az dropped out of a movie right before recording, as he recently stopped a Todd Haynes love film merely five days before filming. A record stated Phoenix az is actually very likely to pay for a low-seven-figure cost as a make-good, considering collections were actually currently made as well as the motion picture was sold to distributors when he suddenly left.McAvoy stars in the scary flick Speak No Evil, which remains in movie theaters currently. As for Phoenix, his next significant flick is actually Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which relates to theaters in October.In other updates concerning McAvoy, the star also talked about just how he auditioned for and might possess starred in the Harry Potter motion picture collection, but decided on to pass.