After 9 years within the making, The Accountant 2 is lastly set to launch, and it is loads completely different from the primary film. Director Gavin O’Connor and star Ben Affleck return to select up the story of the sensible Christian Wolff, who, this time, is joined by his brother Brax (Daredevil: Born Once more’s Jon Bernthal). That’s not all although, as J.Ok. Simmons’ Ray King and Cyntha Addai-Robinson’s Marybeth Media additionally return.
New to The Accountant 2 solid is Daniella Pineda, who performs Anaïs. Because the film’s antagonist, Pineda was in a position so as to add a brand new villainous position to her resumé, which incorporates Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and American Odyssey. Though Anaïs is a villain, she can also be a posh character who is essential to among the movie’s most attention-grabbing moments.
ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley interviewed The Accountant 2 director Gavin O’Connor and stars Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Daniella Pineda at SXSW. They mentioned the lengthy look forward to the sequel and what’s in retailer for his or her characters within the movie. Plus, Pineda and Addai-Robinson teased their upcoming tasks, together with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy season 3.
The Lengthy Wait For The Accountant 2 Was In Half Due To “Musical Chairs” at Warner Brothers
The Movie Was Tied Up At That Studio Till WB Allowed It To Go Elsewhere
The Accountant launched in 2016, and director Gavin O’Connor set out attempting to make a sequel shortly after. “There was some musical chairs being performed at Warner Brothers in regard to the regime modifications,” O’Connor started when requested why the wait was so lengthy, “There was Covid, there have been lockdowns, there was a strike… so it [had] some begins and stops.”
Affleck is a part of the explanation why O’Connor was lastly in a position to get the film off the bottom. “Ben began his personal studio with Matt [Damon],” O’Conor stated. He continued: “I do not know all the main points. I don’t know if Warner Brothers didn’t wish to do a co-[finance] or co-studio [deal] … however they very generously allowed us to take the film elsewhere. The primary place we went was Amazon, and we fashioned a partnership with them.”
Cynthia Addai-Robinson Teases Marybeth’s New Journey In The Accountant 2
“A Totally different Expertise General”
The trailer for The Accountant 2 kills off Simmons’ Ray King, who Marybeth Medina labored carefully with within the first movie. “He’s there, and I’m not completely by myself,” Addai-Robinson stated when requested the way it was to work with out Simmons, “but it surely was good to really feel an evolution each for Marybeth as a personality and for me as an individual, as a result of eight, happening 9 years have elapsed between the primary [film] and the second.”
“For me,” Addai-Robinson continued, “The joy was not simply attending to see J.Ok. once more–though [in] a really completely different set of circumstances from the primary film–however attending to work with Ben and Jon and Daniella and simply having a unique expertise total.”
Later within the interview, Addai-Robinson elaborated on an enormous a part of that completely different expertise: “Within the first film, I didn’t get to work with Ben. I didn’t get to work with Jon. I simply acquired to type of admire their work from afar.” In The Accountant 2, Marybeth Medina could be very a lot within the combine with the Wolff brothers.
“I’m just like the straight man between these two attention-grabbing brothers,” Addai-Robinson said, “simply attempting to sq. my sense of what I outline as getting justice [and] following the rule of legislation with their model of that … however one of many issues that basically resonates with me when it comes to the story we’re telling is that this relationship between brothers and household and watching that play out.”
That dynamic is without doubt one of the story’s most partaking points, the actor stated: “It’s difficult, because it at all times is with household, and I feel that’s actually going to resonate with audiences.”
Daniella Pineda Hypes Up Anäis
“I’m In My Villain Stage Now”
Pineda started her section of the interview by introducing her coat, which was named Fernando after the movie’s stunt coordinator to, in Pineda’s phrases, “provide you with a very kick-ass combat scene.” Pineda went on to share her pleasure about taking part in Anäis: “I’m in my villain stage now in my profession, which I didn’t suppose would ever occur. It’s an element that I’ve by no means gotten to play … I had my audition, and I used to be scared to dying, [but] I used to be like ‘Man, if I get this, that is going to be so enjoyable.’”
O’Connor jumped in: “[Daniella has] an intelligence about right here, and there’s additionally a mysterious high quality to her … she wasn’t letting me fully in, which I believed was actually good. And there have been different qualities that I used to be searching for that I can’t discuss proper now. [But] we spent a while collectively, we performed with the scenes … and we had some actually, I believed, essential conversations concerning the character.”
“She’s a villain,” Pineda added, “but it surely’s positively a posh character.”
The Accountant 3 Is In The Works
O’Connor Reveals Amazon’s Pleasure About Making The Franchise A Trilogy
When requested when audiences will get The Accountant “cubed” (a play on The Accountant 2’s emblem), O’Connor stated the next about altering the brand for the sequel, and the opportunity of a threequel: “That was essential to me, and I used to be very completely satisfied that Amazon embraced that. We have been at all times calling it The Accountant squared. [The Accountant 3] gained’t take eight years.”
Addai-Robnson & Pineda Focus on Their Large Upcoming Tasks
From The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Energy To Dora The Explorer
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy season 3 goes into manufacturing later this yr, and Addai-Robinson is about to reprise her collection position as Tar-Míriel. “I’m very excited,” the actor started, “By the point I am going again, imagine it or not, it’ll have been nearly two years since I wrapped the second season.” She went on to say, “I’m excited to return to Center-Earth. It’s an enormous shift … I don’t actually know what awaits me after I return, however I’m positively going to be completely satisfied to see everyone.”
When Pineda was requested if she could be returning to Jurassic World this summer season, she gave an unlucky, however hopeful replace: “I’m not on this subsequent one, however who is aware of? Nonetheless, I’ll say I’m a significant character within the subsequent Dora the Explorer film, so be careful.”
The Accountant 2 premiered March 8 at Paramount Theater as a part of SXSW 2025.
