.M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 thriller Crack was expected to star Joaquin Phoenix metro in the lead job, yet the actor dropped out just pair of weeks just before recording was because of begin. James McAvoy, who took over for Phoenix, covered this uncommon advancement in a recent interview.Appearing on the Pleased Sad Puzzled podcast, McAvoy said Phoenix metro is actually an "outstanding star," and also he would certainly have played the character in different ways from the Scottish star. Crack says to the story of a male (McAvoy) who has 23 different characters, so any person could recognize exactly how prep work sounds like it might be important to playing the job effectively. However McAvoy pointed out can be found in thus late at the same time was actually something of a comfort due to the fact that he couldn't over-prepare." I believe he will offer an incredibly different performance to the one I did. Yet I believe he will give an awesome efficiency. Often can be found in eleventh hour is the greatest means," he said. "I presume he discarded it like 2 weeks prior to they began shooting. It was actually actually last minute. I possessed two weeks [to prep]" McAvoy took place to mention the Split script was actually thus effectively put-together that he didn't struggle way too much to understand what he desired to carry out in the movie, despite the fact that he was available in thus overdue. McAvoy said there were a couple characters/personalities that "took a little bit longer to locate," however other than that, he mentioned he really did not struggle a lot of to locate his ground as well as make the flick Shyamalan and also Blumhouse wanted.Split had not been the last time Phoenix metro left of a film right before shooting, as he lately gave up a Todd Haynes love movie just 5 times before recording. A document mentioned Phoenix is most likely to pay for a low-seven-figure fee as a make-good, taking into consideration collections were already helped make and also the movie was marketed to reps when he quickly left.McAvoy stars in the terror flick Speak No Misery, which remains in theaters right now. When it comes to Phoenix, his upcoming big film is actually Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which concerns cinemas in October.In other information regarding McAvoy, the actor also talked about how he auditioned for and also might have starred in the Harry Potter flick collection, yet selected to pass.