Samuel L. Jackson Was As Surprised By The Ending Of ‘Split’ As You Were
Warning: Spoilers forSplitfollow, so turn back now if you haven’t seen it yet.M. Night Shyamalan’s 2017 psychological thrillerSplithas one of the most surprising endings of the past decade, stealthily setting up an unexpected sequel that fans have been wanting for years. And though he wasn’t directly involved withSplit,UnbreakablestarSamuel L. Jacksonwas just as surprised atSplit’sending as we were. Read his reaction to the movie’s shocking reveal below.
Samuel L. Jackson Split Reaction
Splitfollows a young girl (Anya Taylor-Joy) who’s kidnapped by “Kevin” (James McAvoy), a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder and who has 23 distinct personalities battling for space in his head. We thought the movie ended with the girl escaping and “Kevin” surviving an intense underground fight sequence, but then there’s a quick extra scene that completely changes everything we saw before:
Mic drop. The movie was set in theUnbreakableuniverse the whole time! The key characters of this universe –Bruce Willis’s superhero David Dunn, Samuel L. Jackson’s supervillain Elijah Price/Mr. Glass, McAvoy’s Kevin/The Horde, and Taylor-Joy’s Casey Cooke – will return inGlass, theUnbreakablesequel fans have been clamoring for since 2001. But to hear Samuel L. Jackson tell it, he had no idea this was coming.
In an interview withVulture, Jackson explains how he found out about the sequel:
“I remember when Night called me last year to say, ‘I need you to watch this movie I just made, and after you watch it, I’ll tell you what I’m thinking.’ So I watchedSplit, and at the end of it, we get Bruce in the café and the woman talks to him about Mr. Glass.” Jackson gasps in surprise, recalling the moment. “I was like, ‘So are we gonna make this movie?’ And Night says, ‘Well, it depends on the opening weekend.'”
Split’s$40 million opening weekend ended up being good enough to warrant this long-awaited sequel, which will pit Dunn against The Horde with Mr. Glass somewhere in between:
Aside fromSplit’ssurprise ending, McAvoy’s towering performance is definitely the most notable thing about it, so I’m very much looking forward to seeing more of him playing multiple characters in the same body whenGlasshits theaters onJanuary 18, 2019.
