.M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 mystery Crack was actually meant to star Joaquin Phoenix metro in the lead role, yet the star left merely two full weeks just before filming resulted from start. James McAvoy, who took control of for Phoenix metro, discussed this unique development in a latest interview.Appearing on the Delighted Sad Confused podcast, McAvoy stated Phoenix is actually an "remarkable actor," and he will possess participated in the character in different ways from the Scottish star. Crack tells the story of a guy (McAvoy) that has 23 different individuals, therefore any individual could understand just how preparation seems like it may be vital to participating in the job effectively. However McAvoy claimed can be found in thus overdue while doing so was one thing of a comfort given that he could not over-prepare." I assume he would certainly provide a really different efficiency to the one I carried out. But I believe he would certainly offer an awesome performance. In some cases coming in last minute is actually the greatest means," he pointed out. "I believe he left it like two weeks just before they started shooting. It was actually actually eleventh hour. I possessed pair of weeks [to prep]" McAvoy went on to claim the Crack manuscript was thus well put-together that he didn't struggle too much to understand what he intended to perform in the film, although he was available in so overdue. McAvoy said there were actually a pair characters/personalities that "took a little longer to locate," but besides that, he claimed he didn't struggle too much to find his footing and also make the film Shyamalan and also Blumhouse wanted.Split wasn't the final time Phoenix left of a film right just before filming, as he lately stopped a Todd Haynes passion movie only 5 times prior to recording. A record said Phoenix metro is likely to pay out a low-seven-figure cost as a make-good, thinking about sets were actually actually produced as well as the flick was actually marketed to distributors when he quickly left.McAvoy stars in the terror film Speak No Evil, which is in theaters right now. As for Phoenix, his following big movie is Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which pertains to movie theaters in October.In other updates about McAvoy, the actor additionally talked about how he auditioned for as well as could possibly have starred in the Harry Potter flick collection, but picked to pass.