James McAvoy has starred in films including “Speak No Evil,” “Atonement” and “X-Men: First Class,” but he recently revealed that the “only” movie whose memories still haunt him consistently is M. Night Shyamalan’s 2016 horror “Split.”
“You know, here you get the odd check for some 100 quid or sometimes you get a check for like 25 cents and you say, ‘It actually cost me more to post it than it did to cash it,'” McAvoy said during a recent episode. happy sad confused podcast. “But the only thing that really pays me consistently is ‘Split’.”
McAvoy continued, “I think it was made for $6 million or something like that? And let’s say they spent $30 advertising it. Our first weekend, we made 40, so we were in profit.” “Our first residual check came at the end of the first weekend. It was terrible.”
In “Split”, three girls are kidnapped by a man (McAvoy) with 23 different personalities. According to the film’s official description, “They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a sinister new 24th.” Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson and Jessica Sula starred alongside McAvoy. The film cost just $6 million to make, but grossed $278.45 million worldwide for a total of $138.29 million domestically and $140.16 million internationally.
McAvoy also talked about Shyamalan and his experience working with the director.
McAvoy said, “I learned a lot from many of the directors I worked with, both consciously and subconsciously, but the thing I took away from them is their preparation.” “They made that movie, and [sequel] ‘Glass’, on an incredibly modest budget, and was very focused on how he would maximize his day and maximize his shots and maximize what he would get from the story by being incredibly well prepared and being able to share that and communicate with the crew.