.M. Evening Shyamalan's 2016 thriller Crack was supposed to star Joaquin Phoenix az in the lead role, yet the star left just 2 full weeks just before shooting resulted from begin. James McAvoy, that consumed for Phoenix, explained this uncommon progression in a recent interview.Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, McAvoy stated Phoenix is an "amazing star," and also he would certainly have played the personality in different ways from the Scottish star. Crack tells the tale of a male (McAvoy) who possesses 23 different characters, therefore anybody might understand exactly how prep work sounds like it may be critical to participating in the task effectively. But McAvoy claimed can be found in therefore overdue at the same time was something of a relief given that he could not over-prepare." I presume he would certainly give a quite various functionality to the one I performed. However I think he will provide an unbelievable efficiency. In some cases can be found in eleventh hour is the greatest method," he said. "I presume he abandoned it like 2 weeks before they began shooting. It was actually truly last minute. I had two weeks [to prep]" McAvoy went on to say the Split manuscript was therefore effectively put-together that he failed to have a hard time way too much to recognize what he would like to do in the movie, although he came in thus late. McAvoy claimed there were actually a couple characters/personalities that "took a little bit longer to locate," yet aside from that, he claimed he didn't struggle a lot of to locate his footing and make the motion picture Shyamalan and also Blumhouse wanted.Split wasn't the last time Phoenix left of a film right just before recording, as he just recently quit a Todd Haynes romance movie only five times before recording. A record stated Phoenix metro is actually likely to pay out a low-seven-figure expense as a make-good, thinking about collections were actually actually created and the movie was sold to representatives when he quickly left.McAvoy superstars in the horror motion picture Talk No Evil, which is in theaters right now. As for Phoenix metro, his upcoming big flick is actually Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which concerns theatres in October.In various other headlines regarding McAvoy, the star also covered exactly how he auditioned for as well as might have starred in the Harry Potter movie series, but decided on to pass.