James McAvoy hadn't seen the original Speak No Evil before he was cast in James Watkins' new take – and he's happy he hadn't, too, or else he might not have signed up to the horror movie at all.
"I'd heard of the original, but I hadn't seen the trailer and I certainly hadn't seen the film," the X-Men actor tells GamesRadar+ and Inside Total Film. "Which I'm glad about because I don't know if I'd have taken the role if I had – [I] just don’t really want to be comparing myself to what somebody else [has] done. So I watched it the day after we finished."
