.M. Evening Shyamalan's 2016 thriller Crack was supposed to star Joaquin Phoenix metro in the lead role, but the actor quit only pair of full weeks prior to filming resulted from start. James McAvoy, who took over for Phoenix az, reviewed this uncommon development in a latest interview.Appearing on the Delighted Sad Overwhelmed podcast, McAvoy mentioned Phoenix is an "incredible actor," and also he would have played the character differently coming from the Scottish actor. Crack tells the story of a guy (McAvoy) who possesses 23 different individualities, thus anyone might understand how prep work sounds like it could be vital to playing the role well. But McAvoy said can be found in therefore overdue in the process was actually something of an alleviation because he couldn't over-prepare." I think he will offer an extremely various functionality to the one I carried out. Yet I presume he will provide an unbelievable functionality. At times can be found in eleventh hour is the most effective technique," he stated. "I assume he discarded it like 2 weeks before they started firing. It was definitely eleventh hour. I possessed pair of full weeks [to prep]" McAvoy happened to say the Crack text was thus effectively put-together that he really did not strain too much to comprehend what he intended to carry out in the film, despite the fact that he can be found in so late. McAvoy claimed there were actually a pair characters/personalities that "took a little bit longer to find," however in addition to that, he stated he failed to have a hard time way too much to locate his ground and create the movie Shyamalan and also Blumhouse wanted.Split wasn't the final time Phoenix left of a film right just before recording, as he recently stopped a Todd Haynes love film just 5 times before filming. A report pointed out Phoenix az is actually very likely to pay out a low-seven-figure expense as a make-good, taking into consideration collections were actually actually produced and also the motion picture was actually offered to distributors when he suddenly left.McAvoy stars in the terror movie Communicate No Misery, which remains in theaters currently. When it comes to Phoenix metro, his upcoming big movie is actually Joker: Folie u00e0 Deux, which concerns movie theaters in October.In various other information about McAvoy, the star also discussed just how he auditioned for and might have starred in the Harry Potter flick set, yet decided on to pass.