While attending the MTV Movie Awards over the weekend, Divergent stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort spoke about Allegiant getting split into two movies.

Speaking to MTV, Elgort said that they’d known the split was possible because they were contractually obligated for up to four movies. “We knew when we signed up for it that if the first one did well, they would try to – hopefully we would do a second one, and if it did really well the third one would be split into two.”

Added Woodley, “At one point I heard that it was not going to happen, and now it is happening, so yeah. You never know man. Life changes every day, you just got to really surrender to the process.”

In a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly, Woodley spoke a little more about the split. “I am excited, but my very first thought, if I’m being honest was, ‘Okay. All right. That’s another year of kicking ass. Another year devoted to this character.’ But that’s all right, because I am honored to be Tris, and it is exciting.”

She also spoke about the franchise in general after the first film’s success at the box office. “Divergent was a very fun film to make, and I worked with some great people. It is also really exciting that just after coming off promoting this one, we start filming the next one in like a month. It will be nice to get into it.”

Allegiant, Part 1 will hit theaters in March 2016 and Allegiant, Part 2 will open in March 2017. Meanwhile, production begins soon on Insurgent for a March 2015 opening.

As of Monday Divergent has made $175 million worldwide.