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Accompanying the pics are a couple of choice quotes from McAvoy. In addition to revealing that the movie explores additional personalities within his Split character, he details the story of how he found out about the movie’s placement within the larger Shyamalan canon:

“We were chatting and he said, ‘Well, maybe if this one does well, we’ll do another one,’ ” McAvoy told EW in a recent interview. “I was like, ‘Really? We’re going to do a sequel to Split?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, you know, bring back David and all that.’ And I was like, David?” The filmmaker meant Bruce Willis’ David Dunn, the workingman superhero of Unbreakable. That’s when McAvoy knew: “Oh, wait a minute…”

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The movie is set to come out January 18, 2019. Begin speculating now about Paulson’s superpower.