James McAvoy is still cashing checks from Split

James McAvoy is still reaping the benefits of M. Night Shyamalan’s Split years later. “I very rarely see anything from anything. You get the odd check for like a couple hundred quid here or sometimes you get checks for like 25 cents, and you’re like, it literally costs more to post this than it did for me to cash it,” McAvoy said during a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. The actor’s comments came near the end of the conversation, as he named the best film in his filmography (Atonement, in case you were wondering) and said that he’d be interested in both acting and directing, but the former is probably more lucrative. When Horowitz joked that McAvoy must get hefty residuals from Wanted, the 2008 action movie he starred in alongside Angelina Jolie, McAvoy said he actually keeps earning from the 2016 psychological thriller Split, in which he played a man with 23 different personalities who kidnaps three teen girls and imprisons them in an underground lair. “The only one that really consistently pays me is Split,” McAcoy said. “I think it was made for like $6 million or something like that. And let’s say they spent $30 [million] advertising it, and in our first weekend, we made $40 [million]. So, we were in profit. So our first residual check came at the end of the first weekend. It was bonkers.”